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- noun nautical The
rope used assupport for themasts , running from thebow to the top of themast and back to thedeck .
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Examples
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There will be sunshine, a lounger by the pool, a mint julep or two and more food than I normally eat in a year for me, whilst the two 82 year old ex-Royal Marines down in steerage busy themselves scrubbing the decks, splicing the mainbrace, watching out for icebergs, sending morse code messages and going on runs ashore.
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Currently wishing she had paid more attention to knot-tying in the Brownies and anything remotely mathematical in her entire school career she may emerge from university yet again, this time as a naval officer able to tie a bowline and splice a mainbrace.
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There will be sunshine, a lounger by the pool, a mint julep or two and more food than I normally eat in a year for me, whilst the two 82 year old ex-Royal Marines down in steerage busy themselves scrubbing the decks, splicing the mainbrace, watching out for icebergs, sending morse code messages and going on runs ashore.
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Currently wishing she had paid more attention to knot-tying in the Brownies and anything remotely mathematical in her entire school career she may emerge from university yet again, this time as a naval officer able to tie a bowline and splice a mainbrace.
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Currently wishing she had paid more attention to knot-tying in the Brownies and anything remotely mathematical in her entire school career she may emerge from university yet again, this time as a naval officer able to tie a bowline and splice a mainbrace.
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There will be sunshine, a lounger by the pool, a mint julep or two and more food than I normally eat in a year for me, whilst the two 82 year old ex-Royal Marines down in steerage busy themselves scrubbing the decks, splicing the mainbrace, watching out for icebergs, sending morse code messages and going on runs ashore.
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In pirate language, “splice the mainbrace” means to have a drink and “to dance with Jack Ketch” means to go to the hangman.
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Except I don't know what a mainbrace is, nor how to splice it.
Archive 2007-08-01 DAVID BISHOP 2007
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Except I don't know what a mainbrace is, nor how to splice it.
Argh. Grappling. With. Scenes. DAVID BISHOP 2007
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Execs at The Walt Disney Co. ought to have been splicing the mainbrace having a drink to a couple of key hands in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise last night.
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