grummet
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Archaic spellings such as "grummet," "develope," and "fryingpan" were retained.
From Storm-Bound or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts by Alan Douglas
This he twisted into a huge grummet round the tree, leaving space enough for his own body to get in also.
From The Three Admirals by J.R. Wells
Over the peg, however, is previously placed a loose grummet, to which the bait is fastened, and a false roof placed over all to hide the line.
From Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Henry Morley
He had brought a long piece of rope, which he formed into a large grummet, or hoop, round the tree.
From The Three Commanders by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
Also, a grummet either of rope or iron, fixed to the bottom of a block, for making fast the standing end of the fall.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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