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Beach :: Beach (v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship..

Flat :: Flat (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand..

Thrum :: Thrum (n.) Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.

Grommet :: Grommet (n.) A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet..

Twine :: Twine (n.) A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string..

Shroud-laid :: Shroud-laid (a.) Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage..

Organzine :: Organzine (n.) A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength..

Cablelaid :: Cablelaid (a.) Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable..

Playa :: Playa (n.) A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation..

Plain-laid :: Plain-laid (a.) Consisting of strands twisted together in the ordinary way; as, a plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage..

Quilting :: Quilting (n.) A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.

Cord :: Cord (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together..

Grist :: Grist (n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands..

Strand :: Strand (n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed..

Rounding :: Rounding (n.) Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service..

Fid :: Fid (n.) A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing..

Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck..

Beached :: Beached (p. p. & a.) Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached..

Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread..

Single :: Single (a.) Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope..

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