unreeve
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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to unreeve a rope.
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(of a rope) to become unreeved.
verb
Etymology
Origin of unreeve
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We had first to unreeve all the ropes, and unbend all the sails.
From Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler by James Durden
“You can unreeve the tops’l halyards,” replied the captain, quietly.
From Saved by the Lifeboat by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Do you, Walter, make a rope fast round the bits; unreeve the fore halliards, they will suit best, and are new and strong.
From Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors by W. Herbert Holloway
But he carried all sail till the rotten main-sheet parted at the boom, and when he came up in the wind to lower the sail the main throat halyard refused to unreeve.
From Dick in the Everglades by A. W. Dimock
Lower them down and let the falls unreeve, so that they will go adrift.
From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson
Therefore they unreeved two long lines and attached them to the long-boat, one on each side.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
As the Forward began to be weather-worn, the masts were unreeved, for they could no longer rely on the variable wind, and the sails were nearly useless in the winding channels.
From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
Yet it pleased God to allay the fury of the storm, and we unreeved our sheets, tacks, halyards, and other ropes, and made fast our ship to the trees on shore, close by the rocks.
The very manner in which the yards were crossed told as plainly of abandonment as unreeved blocks and slackened rigging betokened a careless indifference of her future.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
Again and again the noose came back unreeved, and again and again the patient boy, with rare strength and skill, flung the ample noose over the slippery spires of ice.
From Adrift in the Ice-Fields by Charles W. Hall
At last they could hold out no longer, and Harry, unreeving the rope, descended to the water and brought up a hatful.
From The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers by William Henry Giles Kingston
Then, I set them to work unreeving the gear and making things snug for setting up our jury-masts, of which this is the first—a downright seamanlike piece of work I call it.”
From The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea by J. Schonberg
Run your boat alongside of the capsized one's mast and strip its sail off, unfastening the throat and peak blocks, unreeving the sheet-rope, and cutting the lashings of the sail to the mast-hoops.
From Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 by Various
This he conveyed on deck, and, unreeving as much of the running-gear as he could get at, a good long warp was made by bending the whole together end to end.
From The Missing Merchantman by William Heysham Overend
Also, the lug of the cascable is cut open to admit of the bight of the breeching falling into it, thus obviating the loss of time by unreeving.
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
In a minute she had unrove them, and the long line lay in a little pile at her feet.
From The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper
Already a man had unrove the fore-signal-halyards, the sailors raised a shout and the coiled rope was thrown.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace
The line, in the shape of the gaff-topsail halliard-fall, hastily unrove for the occasion, was soon forthcoming, and the hook, being at last baited to the second mate’s satisfaction, bent on to the chain.
From The Voyage of the Aurora by Harry Collingwood
I did what was far more likely to prove effectual—I unrove the peak-halliards, cutting them clear with my knife, and fastened one end to the wooden grating over the cabin sky-light.
From Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler by James Durden
The ropes were then unrove and secured to another rock or tree.
From Dick Onslow Among the Redskins by George Soper
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