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Twist :: Twist (n.) A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other..

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night..

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

Top :: Top (n.) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting..

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..

Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning..

Strand :: Strand (v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope).

Braid :: Braid (n.) A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands..

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

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

Splice :: Splice (v. t.) To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope..

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

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..

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..

Loper :: Loper (n.) A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands..

Houseline :: Houseline (n.) A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing.

Beach :: Beach (n.) The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand..

Masoola Boat :: Masoola boat () A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras, India. The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a wadding of the same material, so that the shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced..

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

Plait :: Plait (v. t.) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope..

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