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roband Naut. (ˈrəʊbænd) Also 8–9 roban. [Later var. of robin robbin, app. more directly representing one or other of the forms cited under raband. Sometimes improved into rope-band.] A piece of small rope passed through an eyelet-hole in the head of a sail and used to secure it to the yard above.176...
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Harry Shorten
1982 retirement, Shorten was a book publisher, overseeing such companies as Leisure Books, Midwood Books, Midwood-Tower Publications, Belmont Tower, and Roband Daytime television industry
Some time in the late 1960s Shorten founded Roband Productions, which published, among others, Afternoon TV magazine, devoted
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rope-band
ˈrope-band etymologizing form of roband.1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Rope-bands,..pronounced roebins, certain pieces of small rope, or braided cordage, used to tie the upper edges of the great sails to their respective yards. 1792 Falconer's Shipwr. ii. 324 note, They are passed..between the r...
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Walter Butler Shipbuilders Inc.
Roband Hitch
(Hull # 345, August 1945, last Walter Butler Duluth ship)
Enbridge Ogdensburg Pier
Enbridge Ogdensburg Pier was opened in 1950
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raband
† ˈraband Sc. Obs. Also rai-. [f. ra1 + band: cf. Da. and Sw. råband, Du. raband (Kilian raeband), G. rah-, raaband, and ON. rábenda to bend a sail.] A roband or robbin.1513 Douglas æneis iii. iv. 110 Do lows the rabandis, and lat doun the sail. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 40 Cut the raibandis, and lat th...
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robbin
ˈrobbin Naut. Now rare or Obs. Forms: 5 robyn, 7–8 robin, 7–9 robbin, 9 -en. [Var. of roband; the form suggests that the immediate source may have been French, but mod.F. raban appears to be a later adoption of Du. raband.] = roband.1497 Naval Accs. Hen. VII (1896) 321, iiij Smale lynes for lachetes...
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rope-yard
ˈrope-yard [rope n.1] † 1. = roband. Obs.—0 (? Error for rope-yarn.)1611 Cotgr., Rabans, rope-yards; the ropes, or treble cordes whereby the sayles of a ship are tied vnto the yardes. 2. A yard where ropes are made.1664 Pepys Diary 19 July, Down by water to Woolwich, where coming to the rope-yarde.....
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There Oughta Be a Law!
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Many collected editions were published by companies affiliated with Harry Shorten, including Midwood Books, Belmont Books, Belmont Tower, and Roband — introduction by Danny Kaye; reprinted in 1966 by Tower Publications
There Oughta Be a Law no. 4 (Midwood, 1958)
There Oughta Be a Law (New York: Roband
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roving
▪ I. roving, vbl. n.1 (ˈrəʊvɪŋ) [f. rove v.1] 1. a. Archery. The action or practice of shooting at a random mark.1480 Coventry Leet Bk. 457 Þe people of þis Citie yerely breken the hegges & dykes of þe seid Priour in diuerse places in þeir shotyng cald Rovyng. Ibid. 458 Although such rovyng about th...
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reef
▪ I. reef, n.1 (riːf) Forms: 4, 8 riff, 6 ryft, refe, 7– reef. pl. 8 reeves, 8– reefs. [ME. riff, refe = Du. reef, rif, LG. reef, reff, G. reff (riff, reef), Sw. ref, Norw. riv, Da. rev, reb: the ultimate source is ON. rif in the same sense (formally identical with rif rib, and perh. only a transfer...
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McDougall Duluth Shipbuilding Company
Roband Hitch
(Hull # 345, August 1945, last Walter Butler Duluth ship)
Spirit Lake Marina
The current site is the Spirit Lake Marina, also called
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