Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
robbin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) See
roperand .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A
ropeband .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word roband.
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
chained_bear commented on the word roband
"Many a watch had been spent in sending up preventer backstays, braces, shrouds and stays and in attending to new earings, robands, reef-points, reef-tackles for the courses and spilling-lines for the topsails, to say nothing of new sheets and clewlines fore and aft."
--P. O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 232
A Sea of Words: "roban or rope-bands--a piece of small rope rove through an eyelet-hole in the head of a square sail and used to secure it to the yard above," (374).
March 16, 2008
yarb commented on the word roband
Citation on haze.
September 6, 2008