Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, the space between the bilges of casks which are stowed alongside of one another.
- noun The space between the strands on the outside of a rope, which in worming is filled up, so as to make the rope nearly cylindrical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Ropemaking) The space between the strands on the outside of a rope.
- noun (Naut.) The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical The
spiral groove between thestrands of arope - noun nautical The
space betweencasks stowed side by side
Etymologies
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Originally cuntline
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