Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a rope stretched from one place to another to prevent gear from getting foul; especially, a rope made fast to the stock of the waist-anchor, to keep the tacks and sheets from fouling on the stock.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.
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- noun nautical a
rope used on ship to prevent other lines and riggings tangling with each other
Etymologies
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Probably ultimately based on Old French timon ‘tiller’ + guy.
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whichbe commented on the word timenoguy
Time is a gal.
June 2, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word timenoguy
"... a rope fastened at one end to the foreshrouds, and nailed at the other end to the anchor-stock, on the bow, to prevent the foresheet from entangling."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 567
October 12, 2008
reesetee commented on the word timenoguy
Also apparently means "a gadget" in an extended sense. :-)
October 14, 2008