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GUESS-WARP Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. a line carried in a small boat from a ship to a buoy, an anchor, or the shore 2. guest rope 3. a line led from a ship through a fairlead on a boat boom. www.merriam-webster.com
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guess warp - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object. Noun. edit · guess warp (plural ... en.wiktionary.org
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Guess warp - The Free Dictionary
(Naut.) A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; - so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making ... www.thefreedictionary.com
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guess-warp
guess-warp Naut. (ˈgɛswɔːp) Also 5 gyes-, 9 ges-, guest-warp. [The first element is of doubtful origin: see quot. 1862 (sense 1) and guest-rope guess-rope); the second is warp n.] 1. ‘A rope carried to a distant object, in order to warp a vessel towards it, or to make fast a boat’ (Smyth Sailor's Wo... Oxford English Dictionary
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guess-warp, n. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the noun guess-warp is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for guess-warp is from around 1495–7. guess- ... www.oed.com
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GESWARP Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of GESWARP is a line carried in a small boat from a ship to a buoy, an anchor, or the shore. www.merriam-webster.com
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ges-warp
ges-warp var. guess-warp. Oxford English Dictionary
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guess warp (rapid, speculative shift in assumptions) - OneLook
guess warp usually means: Rapid, speculative shift in assumptions. All meanings: (nautical) A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed. ; (nautical ... onelook.com
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guess warps - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
guess warps · plural of guess warp · Categories: English non-lemma forms · English noun forms. Hidden categories: Pages with entries · Pages with 1 entry. en.wiktionary.org
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Guess-warp - Encyclopedia - The Free Dictionary
A line used in conjunction with a Jacob's ladder on the thimble of which boat crews reeve their bowlines. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical ... encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com
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Guess warp hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy
Find the perfect guess warp stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. Available for both RF and RM licensing. www.alamy.com
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100+ words for 'guess warp' - Reverse Dictionary
According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "guess warp" are: guess rope, guess–rope, guest-rope, geswarp, ... reversedictionary.org
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gyes warp
gyes warp obs. form of guess-warp. Oxford English Dictionary
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gift-rope
† ˈgift-rope Naut. Obs. [The first element is prob. corrupt; perh. the word may be spurious, evolved by a misprint or misreading from gest-rope.] = guest-rope, guess-warp.1704 Harris Lex. Techn., Gift-rope is the Boat-Rope, which is fastened to the Boat when she is swifted, in order to her being tow... Oxford English Dictionary
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guest-rope
ˈguest-rope, ˈguess-rope Also 7 gest-, ghest-rope. [The first element is of doubtful form and origin; it has been referred to guest n. (‘a rope to assist guests in coming on board’; but this suits sense 2 only) and to guess n. (cf. quot. 1862 s.v. guess-warp).] 1. A second rope, fastened to a boat i... Oxford English Dictionary
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