Bowline
(n.) 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. |
Clove
() of Cleave |
Clove
(imp.) Cleft. |
Clove
(v. t.) A cleft |
Clove
(n.) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, / Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles. |
Clove
(n.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic. |
Clove
(n.) A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds. |
Crossing
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross |
Crossing
(v. t.) The act by which anything is crossed |
Crossing
(v. t.) The act of making the sign of the cross. |
Crossing
(v. t.) The act of interbreeding |
Crossing
(v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads. |
Crossing
(v. t.) A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed |
Crossing
(v. t.) Contradiction |
Cuckold's knot
() A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together |
Half
(a.) Consisting of a moiety, or half |
Half
(a.) Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half |
Half
(adv.) In an equal part or degree |
Half
(a.) Part |
Half
(a.) One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided |
Half
(v. t.) To halve. [Obs.] See Halve. |
Half-and-half
(n.) A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts. |
Half blood
() The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both |
Half blood
(n.) A person so related to another. |
Half blood
(n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races |
Half-blooded
(a.) Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races |
Half-blooded
(a.) Degenerate |
Half-boot
(n.) A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress. |
Half-bound
(n.) Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book. |
Half-bred
(a.) Half-blooded. |
Half-bred
(a.) Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding |
Half-breed
(a.) Half-blooded. |
Half-breed
(n.) A person who is blooded |
Half-brother
(n.) A brother by one parent, but not by both. |
Half-caste
(n.) One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective |
Half-clammed
(a.) Half-filled. |
Half-cracked
(a.) Half-demented |
Half-deck
(n.) A shell of the genus Crepidula |
Half-deck
(n.) See Half deck, under Deck. |
Half-decked
(a.) Partially decked. |
Half-faced
(a.) Showing only part of the face |
Half-fish
(n.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth. |
Half-hatched
(a.) Imperfectly hatched |
Half-heard
(a.) Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. |
Half-hearted
(a.) Wanting in heart or spirit |
Half-hearted
(a.) Lacking zeal or courage |
Half-hourly
(a.) Done or happening at intervals of half an hour. |
Half-learned
(a.) Imperfectly learned. |
Half-length
(a.) Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture. |
Half-mast
(n.) A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff |
wheeling
rolling | propelling something on wheels |
hitch
hobble
limp | the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg |
| crossing | traveling across |
| crossing | a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) |
| half gainer | a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board |
| half volley | a tennis return made by hitting the ball immediately after it bounces |
| rolling | the act of robbing a helpless person, he was charged with rolling drunks in the park |
| half nelson | a wrestling hold in which the holder puts an arm under the opponent's arm and exerts pressure on the back of the neck |
hybridization
hybridisation
crossbreeding
crossing cross
interbreeding
hybridizing | (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids |
knot
greyback grayback Calidris canutus | a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere |
jacksnipe half snipe
Limnocryptes minima | a small short-billed Old World snipe |
| Italian greyhound | a toy dog developed from the greyhound |
| Italian bee | yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits |
barrel knot
blood knot | a knot used for tying fishing leaders together, the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times |
| Blackwall hitch | a simple hitch used for temporarily attaching a line to a hook |
bowline
bowline knot | a loop knot that neither slips nor jams |
buskin
combat boot
desert boot
half boot
top boot | a boot reaching halfway up to the knee |
| clove hitch | a knot used to fasten a line temporarily to a post or spar |
crossing
crosswalk
crossover | a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other |
domino half mask
eye mask | a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes |
Dutch door
half door | an exterior door divided in two horizontally, either half can be closed or open independently |
fisherman's knot
true lover's knot truelove knot | a knot for tying the ends of two lines together |
| French knot | a stitch made by looping the thread several times around the needle before inserting it into the fabric |
| Gordian knot | an intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia |
granny knot
granny | a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure |
| half binding | book binding in which the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another |
| half cross stitch | a single cross stitch at a diagonal |
| half hatchet | a hatchet with a broad blade on one end and a hammer head of the other |
| half hitch | a knot used to fasten a rope temporarily to an object, usually tied double |
| half-length | a portrait showing the body from only the waist up |
| half sole | shoe sole extending from the shank to the toe |
| half track | a track that goes around only rear wheels |
| half track | a motor vehicle propelled by half tracks, frequently used by the military |
hindrance
hinderance
hitch preventive preventative encumbrance
incumbrance
interference | any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome |
| hitch | a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it, a temporary knot |
| hitch | a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls |
intersection
crossroad
crossway
crossing carrefour | a junction where one street or road crosses another |
| knot | any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object |
level crossing
grade crossing | intersection of a railway and a road on the same level, barriers close road when trains pass |
| loop knot | any of various knots used to make a fixed loop in a rope |
love knot
lovers' knot
lover's knot
true lovers' knot
true lover's knot | a stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of love |
| magnus hitch | a rolling hitch similar to a clove hitch |
Matthew Walker
Matthew Walker knot | a kind of stopper knot |
| overhand knot | a simple small knot (often used as part of other knots) |
pedestrian crossing
zebra crossing | street crossing where pedestrians have right of way, often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes) |
| pelican crossing | an acronym for pedestrian light control, a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights that are controlled by pedestrians |
petticoat
half-slip
underskirt | undergarment worn under a skirt |
prolonge knot
sailor's breastplate | a knot in the rope used to drag a gun carriage |
reef knot
flat knot | a square knot used in a reef line |
| rolling hitch | a hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope |