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Rope-yarn :: Rope-yarn (n.) the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.

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

Marline :: Marline (v.) A small line composed of two strands a little twisted, used for winding around ropes and cables, to prevent their being weakened by fretting..

Snake :: Snake (v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm..

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..

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.

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Worm :: Worm (n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope..

Strand :: Stranding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stran.

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

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope..

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

Hyalonema :: Hyalonema (n.) A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope..

Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..

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..

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