Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical: A rope serving the same purpose as a tiller-chain.
- noun In small vessels, a rope leading from the tiller-head to each side of the deck, to assist in steering in rough weather.
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Examples
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In the midst worked a wheel, placed vertically, and caught to the tiller-rope, which ran to the back of the Nautilus.
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But when the others crowded around, each eager for the last word, he turned away and busied himself with his tiller-rope, sick at heart.
Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry
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As the officers were conducting him below, his lordship deliberately remarked that the tiller-rope was too slack, and requested that Captain
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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The vertical pivots of the rudder 22 are indicated at 25, and one of these pivots has mounted thereon a sheave or pulley 26, around which passes a tiller-rope 27, the ends of which are extended out laterally and secured to the rope 19 on opposite sides of the central point of said rope.
A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914
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The man, reeking with perspiration, threw himself upon it, and passed the slip-noose of the tiller-rope around the neck of the defeated monster.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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They gathered in the sheet as though their lives depended on it, and at the same moment I eased off the weather tiller-rope, and gave the craft her head.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886
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An involuntary impulse of girlish embarrassment caused her to give a vehement pull at the tiller-rope, which brought the boat's head round till they stood directly for shore.
Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884
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Apparently it had filled with water and the tiller-rope had broken.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land 1879
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"Mr. Nelson, the tiller-rope is shot away, sir, and the boat is on fire!"
Frank on the Lower Mississippi Harry Castlemon 1878
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The cotton-bales on the guards had been set on fire by a bursting shell; the tiller-rope shot away, rendering it impossible to steer the boat; the boilers penetrated, and the engine-room filled with hot steam, which now began to rise and envelop the men on the boiler-deck.
Frank on the Lower Mississippi Harry Castlemon 1878
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