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girt-line
ˈgirt-ˌline Naut. (See quots.) Cf. gantline.1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Girt-line, a rope passing through a single block, on the head of the lower masts, to hoist up the rigging thereof..The girt-line is therefore the first rope employed to rig a ship [etc.]. 1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast viii. 1... Oxford English Dictionary
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gantline
ˈgantˌline Naut. = girtline.1840 [see girt-line]. 1882 Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 61 Put one gantline on each sheer head. 1938 J. Masefield Dead Ned 45 They'd have laid me out and stripped me to a bare gantline, but for him. Oxford English Dictionary
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girt
▪ I. girt, n. (gɜːt) [var. girth n.1, in use chiefly in the 17th and 18th c.] 1. A saddle-girth; = girth n.1 1. Obs. exc. dial.1563 Fulke Meteors (1571) 30 b, Her horse laye dead with his bridle and girtes vntied. a 1616 Beaum. & Fl. Wit without M. ii. v, Ile give um leave to cut my girts, and flay ... Oxford English Dictionary
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rig
▪ I. rig, n.1 Also 4–6 ryg, 6 rigge, 7– rigg. [Northern and Sc. form of ridge n.1] 1. The back, in man or animals; = ridge n.1 1.a 1300 Havelok 1775 Bernard stirt up, þat was ful big, And caste a brinie up-on his rig. a 1352 Minot Poems (ed. Hall) vii. 81 Ilk Inglis man on oþers rig Ouer þat water e... Oxford English Dictionary
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cant
▪ I. cant, n.1 (kænt) Also 5–8 kant. [Found c 1400; rare before 1600. Words identical in form and corresponding in sense are found in many languages, Teutonic, Slavonic, Romanic, Celtic. Cf. Du. kant, MDu. cant, border, side, brink, edge, corner, MLG. kant (masc.) point, creek, border, also kante (f... Oxford English Dictionary
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strip
▪ I. strip, n.1 Law. Now only U.S. (strɪp) Forms: 6 stripe, stryppe, strepe, 7–strip. [a. AF. estrepe, vbl. noun f. estreper estrepe v.] = estrepement.1516 in 5th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. (1876) 596/2 Jone my wyffe schalle make no stryppe ner waste in fellyng of tymbyr. 15.. Modus tenend. Cur. Baron (W... Oxford English Dictionary
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