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GLOSSARY

KNOT: (I) Specifically, a KNOB KNOT. (1) LIE FAIR, To: To be ready, in position.

Broadly, any complication in rope except (a) LIGATURE KNOT: A SURGEON'S KNOT for constrict-

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accidental ones, as snarls and kinks, and mg.

(b) arrangements for storage, coils, balls, LIGHT, To: To move a heavy cable in short shifts,

skeins, hanks, etc. (3) The same as (1) but by hand.

further excluding sinnets, splices, hitches and LINE: A common name for various cordage, with-

bends. out specific meaning, as fishline, clew line,

Kop KNOT: An old name for the TACK or MAN- heaving line, whale line, spring line, towline,

ROPE KNOT, given by Norie (1804). clothesline, mooring line.

LACING or LACE LINE: A long line used in bending LIZARD: A short pennant with a bull's-eye or

and reefing sail. thimble spliced in one end.

LAIR ROPE: A rope used in making up a pack for LONG-JAWED ROPE: Old rope that has stretched

animal transportation. and lost much of its twist.

LANYARD: (I) A small rope for making fast the Loop KNOT: A closed and knotted bight. An EYE

end of a stay, etc. (1) Handles for marling- SPLICE is a MULTI-STRAND Loop KNOT.

spikes, clothesbags, ditty bags, jackknives, LOOSE, To (A SAIL): To unfurl it. To loose a knot

whistles, etc., commonly ornamented with is to untie or spill it.

knots and sinnets. MAGGED ROPE: Worn or fretted rope.

LARIAT: Lasso, riata, rope, etc., for snaring run- MAKE FAST, To: (I) To secure a rope with :\

ning animals from horseback. hitch. (1 ) To finish off belaying with a SIN-

LARK: The French name for a RING or TAG KNOT GLE HITCH.

(Tete d'allouette). MAKE SAIL: Being under way, to set additional

LASH, To: (I) To bind two or more objects to- sail.

gether. (1) To wrap a single object with a MANHANDLE: To move heavy objects by man-

series of turns or hitches. (3) To secure any power alone, without the aid of tackle or

movable object on shipboard in order to pre- other machine.

vent shifting. MANROPES: Originally the jib-boom footropes.

LAY: The direction of the twist in a rope, the lead The name was afterwards applied to the en-

of the strands, also the nature of the twist, as tering ropes which provide a handhold to

hard, soft, left, right, long or short. To "open anyone coming overside.

the lay" is to separate the strands with a fid or MARL, To: To secure parceling with a series of

fingers. MARLINE HITCHES.

LAY, To: To form a rope in a ropewalk by twist- MARLINGSPIKE or MARLINESPIKE: A conical rig-

ing the strands together. ger's tool of metal, with a knobbed head for

LAY Up, To: To restore the lay of a rope's end pounding, used to tighten seizings, service

after it has been opened, particularly after a and whippings and to open strands when

STOPPER KNOT has been tied. A short length knotting and splicing.

of rope is relaid and a whipping added. MARLINGSPIKE SAILOR: One handy with knots and

LAY HOLD, To: To seize a rope and stand by. splices. A term used by Brady (Kedge An-

LAY OFF, To: To quit, as to layoff a yard. chor, 1841).

LAY OUT, To: To take a position on a yardarm or MARRY, To: (I) To butt two ropes' ends and

a jib boom. worm over the joint, adding four stops. Used

LEAD: The direction of a rope. The direction of a in reeving off. (1) To open and crotch two

strand in a knot. ropes' ends preparatory to splicing or shroud

LEADS: The parts of a tackle between the two knotting.

blocks, as opposed to the standing part and MESH: One of the comparunents of a net.

fall. MESSENGER: A rope belt passing around two cap-

LEECH: The side edges of a square sail and the stans, by means of which the cable is hove in.

after edge of a fore-and-aft sail. MIDDLE, To: To determine the center of a piece

LEFT-HANDED KNOT: A mirrored or perverted of rope by laying the two ends together.

knot, tied contrary to the prevailing practice. MOOR, To: To tie up to a wharf or buoy, or else

LEFT-HANDED or LEFT-LAID ROPE: The reverse of to anchor both bow and stern.

right'-hand~d or plain-laid rope. The yarns NECK OF A KNOT: The stem.

and rope have a left twist and the strands a NETTLES, KNI'I"fLES, KNE'I"fLES: Small, twice-laid

right one. stuff made of rope yarns, used in sinnets, seiz-

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LEGS: When a rope branches into two or more mgs, etc.

parts they are often termed legs, as the legs NIP, THE: The spot within a knot where the end

of a crowfoot or a bowline. Also the opened is gripped and is thereby made secure. To nip

strands of a rope's end employed in splicing is to cease giving and to become secure.

or knotting. NIPPERS: Small ropes which hold the messenger ta

LEND A HAND, To: To assist, to aid in hauling, etc. the cable.

LET Go, To: To cast off. To let go "by the run" NOOSE: A loop which passes around its own stand-

is to cast off all at once. ing part and draws tight when hauled u\>on.

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