Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Condemned canvas, rope, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Naut.) Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun nautical Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.

Etymologies

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Etymology uncertain.

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Examples

  • It has probably been destroyed altogether, but Rome is a great place for treasuring rubbish and rombowline, and perhaps the old keyboard still exists, with stacks of wooden and metal pipes and bundles of worm-eaten trackers, all piled up together and forgotten in some corner of the crypt, or in some high belfry room or long-closed attic above the gorgeous ceiling of the Basilica.

    Stradella 1881

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