bowline
Also called bowline knot . a knot used to make a nonslipping loop on the end of a rope.
Nautical. a rope made fast to the weather leech of a square sail, for keeping the sail as flat as possible when close-hauled.
Idioms about bowline
on a bowline, Nautical. sailing close-hauled.
on an easy bowline, Nautical. close-hauled with sails well filled.
Origin of bowline
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How to use bowline in a sentence
The bowline is also shown in the drawing of the 'Cygnet,' 35 tons, in a following chapter on Thames Clubs.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.The words of these windlass and bowline "shanties" have, of course, little of the element of finished poetry about them.
Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry | Alfred M. WilliamsTo the westward, sir; on an easy bowline, and under short canvass.
The Two Admirals | J. Fenimore CooperHarry had already made a bowline in a bight at the end of a line.
Boy Scouts in the North Sea | G. Harvey RalphsonThere was a coil of extra cable here, and he grabbed the loose end and deftly made a running bowline knot.
Blow The Man Down | Holman Day
British Dictionary definitions for bowline
/ (ˈbəʊlɪn) /
a line for controlling the weather leech of a square sail when a vessel is close-hauled
on a bowline beating close to the wind
a knot used for securing a loop that will not slip at the end of a piece of rope
Origin of bowline
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