pay out
backsplice
whip
reeve
rope off
pick up the slack
take in
stopper knot
bight
jumar
take up the slack
ease
hank
stopper
unrope
monkey's fist
kevel
Blackwall hitch
marline
trice up
tackle block
shorten
sheepshank
grist
uncast
raip
tail
unroped
nip
catch-rope
jeff
slackrope walking
catshank
feazings
rolling hitch
rappel
small stuff
taut
slackline
ascendeur
leash
rope
droop
descendeur
cable-laid rope
strand
loll
handrope
trip
log
untruss
snatch block
bungee cord
funambulism
belay
tey
tightrope walking
catharpin
choke the luff
funambulatory
feeze
angler's loop
bungee
guy
lash
funambulate
line
cable
fag-end
rap jumping
half hitch
slatch
unwhip
running noose
fox
noose
lax
becue
stripper
rope drilling
slip noose
top-chain
standing end
fastened
make off
rope up
parcel
tied
loose end
fag end
untighten
lashing
outrope
girthline
unroped
taut
funambulatory
lax
fastened
tied
stopper knot
jumar
stopper
monkey's fist
kevel
Blackwall hitch
marline
hank
tackle block
sheepshank
grist
raip
tail
nip
catch-rope
jeff
slackrope walking
catshank
feazings
rolling hitch
rappel
small stuff
slackline
ascendeur
descendeur
cable-laid rope
handrope
log
snatch block
bungee cord
funambulism
tey
tightrope walking
catharpin
angler's loop
bungee
belay
guy
line
cable
fag-end
rap jumping
half hitch
slatch
running noose
fox
noose
stripper
rope drilling
slip noose
top-chain
standing end
loose end
fag end
lashing
girthline
pay out
backsplice
whip
reeve
rope off
pick up the slack
take in
bight
take up the slack
ease
hank
unrope
trice up
shorten
uncast
leash
rope
droop
strand
loll
trip
untruss
belay
choke the luff
feeze
lash
funambulate
unwhip
becue
make off
rope up
parcel
untighten
outrope
verb
- To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
- To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
- To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
- To urge into action or obedience.
- To hit with any flexible object.
- To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
- To move very fast.
- To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
- To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
- To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
- To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
- To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
- To snap back and forth like a whip.
- To hit with a whip.
- To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
- To defeat, as in a contest or game.
- To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
noun
- A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
- A whipper-in.
- A blow administered with a whip.
- A coach driver; a coachman.
- The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
- A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
- A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
- The regular status of an MP within a parliamentary party, which can be revoked by the party as a disciplinary measure.
- A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
- The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
- A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
- A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes; a whipper-in.
- A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
- A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
- A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
- Whipped cream.
verb
noun
- The president of a township or municipal district council.
- Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
- A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.
- The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.
verb
- To tighten (a belaying rope). (Also take up.)
- To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home.
- To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee.
- To enjoy or appreciate.
- To deceive; to hoodwink.
- To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller.
- To absorb or comprehend.
- To attend a showing of.
- To reef.
verb
- To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
- To move (something) slowly and carefully.
- To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- To proceed with little effort.
- To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
- To lessen in intensity.
- To give respite to (someone).
noun
- Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
- Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
- Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
- Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
- Ability, the means to do something
- Freedom from difficulty.
- Skill, dexterity, facility.
- Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
- Freedom from effort, leisure, rest.
- Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
- Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
verb
noun
- A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
- A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- Doubt, difficulty.
- Mess, tangle.
- A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
noun
- A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
- Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
- A bung or cork.
- In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.
- A short rope for making something fast.
- Goalkeeper.
- A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
verb
noun
- A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”)
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- The penis of a person or animal.
- A tailing.
- The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The buttocks or backside.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
verb
- To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- To pull or draw by the tail.
adj
noun
- A short turn in a rope.
- A hamburger.
- A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A playful bite.
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
- A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
verb
- To squeeze or pinch.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To taunt.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
adj
- Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight.
- Containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled.
- Experiencing anxiety or stress.
- Strong; uncompromising.
- Not flabby; firm, toned; (of a person) having a lean, strong body.
- Neat and well-disciplined; (by extension) efficient and in order.
verb
verb
- To break a strand of (a rope).
- To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- To form by uniting strands.
- To run aground; to beach.
- To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
noun
- A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- A passage for water; gutter.
- A nucleotide chain.
- A string.
- A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- A street.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
verb
- To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- To journey, to make a trip.
noun
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A stumble or misstep.
- A trip-switch or cut-out.
- Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- A flock of wigeons.
- A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- A mechanical cutout device.
- A faux pas, a social error.
adj
noun
- A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
- A difference of one in the logarithm, usually in base 10; an order of magnitude.
- Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
- Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.
- The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
- A logbook, or journal of a vessel's (or aircraft's) progress.
- A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.
- Specifically, an append-only sequence of records written to file.
- A blockhead; a very stupid person.
- Synonym of logarithm.
- A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about ¹⁄₃ liter).
- A rolled cake with filling.
- A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree.
- A piece of feces.
- A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
- A heavy longboard.
- A penis.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.
- An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
- Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
- character, personality (not referring to a person, but pretending to)
- A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge).
- A person (see usage notes).
- A man, fellow.
verb
verb
- To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
noun
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- An attempt; a go at something.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
adj
noun
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a telephone connection
- acting in conformity
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- a short personal letter
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
verb
noun
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
- A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
- A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
verb
noun
- A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
- A physically attractive man or woman.
- A fox terrier.
- Air-to-air weapon launched.
- A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
- A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
- A cunning person.
- A person with reddish brown hair, usually a woman.
- A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- The fourteenth Lenormand card.
- The fur of a fox.
- The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
- Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox).
verb
- To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- To act slyly or craftily.
- To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- To confuse or baffle (someone).
- To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
- To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
noun
- A tool used to strip tubing: to empty it by applying pressure to the outside of the tubing and moving that pressure along the tubing.
- A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.
- Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.
- A chemical or tool used to remove paint, sheathing, etc. from something.
- A playing card that has been trimmed so that a cheat can recognise it from the back.
verb
- To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
- To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into.
- To wrap something up into the form of a package.
- To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
noun
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
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