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Rope :: Rope (n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage..

Contline :: Contline (n.) The space between the strands on the outside of a rope.

Astrand :: Astrand (adv. & a.) Stranded.

Yarn :: Yarn (n.) One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.

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

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

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..

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

Hawser :: Hawser (n.) A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.

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

Aground :: Aground (adv. & a.) On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.

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..

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..

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

Stranded :: Strand (n.) The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river..

Strong :: Strond (n.) Strand; beach.

Braid :: Braid (v. t.) To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait..

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

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

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

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