tight
Webster Dictionary
close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight
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taut
Webster Dictionary
tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained
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tightrope
(ˈtaɪtˌroʊp)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.
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knot
(ɒt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an interlacing, looping, etc., of a cord, rope, or the like, drawn tight into a knob, for fastening two cords together or a cord to something else.
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balance
Webster Dictionary
to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope
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rope
Webster Dictionary
to partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd
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tight
Webster Dictionary
firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot
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bowline
Webster Dictionary
a rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled
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guy
Webster Dictionary
a rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened
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air-tight
Webster Dictionary
so tight as to be impermeable to air; as, an air-tight cylinder
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grist
Webster Dictionary
in rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands
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rounding
Webster Dictionary
small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service
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knot
(knot)
Princeton's WordNet
any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
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spun yarn
(spun yarn)
Princeton's WordNet
(nautical) small stuff consisting of a lightweight rope made of several rope yarns loosely wound together
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figure eight
(figure eight, figure of eight)
Princeton's WordNet
a knot having the shape of the numeral 8; tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loose
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figure of eight
(figure eight, figure of eight)
Princeton's WordNet
a knot having the shape of the numeral 8; tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loose
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pulley
(pulley, pulley-block, pulley block, block)
Princeton's WordNet
a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
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block
(pulley, pulley-block, pulley block, block)
Princeton's WordNet
a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
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pulley-block
(pulley, pulley-block, pulley block, block)
Princeton's WordNet
a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
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halter
(halter, hackamore)
Princeton's WordNet
rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading
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weaver's knot
(sheet bend, becket bend, weaver's knot, weaver's hitch)
Princeton's WordNet
a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)
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hackamore
(halter, hackamore)
Princeton's WordNet
rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading
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becket bend
(sheet bend, becket bend, weaver's knot, weaver's hitch)
Princeton's WordNet
a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)
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sheet bend
(sheet bend, becket bend, weaver's knot, weaver's hitch)
Princeton's WordNet
a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)
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weaver's hitch
(sheet bend, becket bend, weaver's knot, weaver's hitch)
Princeton's WordNet
a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)
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rain-tight
Webster Dictionary
so tight as to exclude rain; as, a rain-tight roof
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overhaul
(ˈoʊ vərˌhænd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to slacken (a rope) by hauling in the opposite direction to that in which the rope was drawn taut.
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eye splice
(ˈaɪˌsɔr, ˈaɪˌsoʊr)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a splice made in a rope by turning back one end and interweaving it with the main body of the rope so as to form a loop.
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strappado
(əˈpeɪ doʊ, -ˈpɑ-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim was hoisted by a rope around the wrists, dropped, and allowed to fall the length of the rope.
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bend
(ɛnd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a knot for joining two rope ends or a rope to an object.
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