To seize two ropes parallel, with cross-turns.
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CORDAGE
Ropes in the rigging of a ship
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FRAP
To draw a sail tight with ropes or cables
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KNOW THE ROPES
Said about a sailor who is familiar with the miles of cordage and ropes involved in running a ship.
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HALYARD
Originally, ropes used for hoisting a spar with a sail attached; today, a line used to raise the head of any sail.
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CHAFING PLATE
Bent plate for minimizing chafing of ropes
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CHOCK
A heavy smooth-surfaced fitting usually located near the edge of the weather deck through which wire ropes or fiber hawsers may be led, usually to piers
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MOORING
Securing a ship at a dock or elsewhere by ropes or cables
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WHIPPING
Means of fixing a fibre rope so that the strands will not unravel. On wire rope it is called seize or wrap. Used tape or light wire. Can braze end of wire if going through drum or winch and take wire off.
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HATCHRAILS
Ropes supported by stanchions around an open hatch to prevent persons from falling into a hold
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MOOR
To secure a vessel in a particular place by means of chains or ropes made fast to the shore, to anchors, or to anchored mooring buoys, or to ride with both anchors down
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