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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..

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

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

Unbraid :: Unbraid (v. t.) To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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