frapping

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We got the new one out into the nettings; seized on the tack, sheets, and halyards, and the hanks; manned the halyards, cut adrift the frapping-lines, and hoisted away; but before it was half-way up the stay it was blown all to pieces.

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  • Among the frapping sousaphones and squeaking trumpets, I'm frequently reminded that family can be found in the most unlikely places. —  Progressive U - The new media voice for students
  • Consists of a grommet made of rope double the size of the gun-tackle falls, with two cringles worked into it for the frapping lashing, which will be of stuff half the size of the tackle-falls The grommet will be made large enough just to slip over the swell of the muzzle when the bight is over the housing hook-bolt, and the gun is in position for housing. —  Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
  • We got the new one out into the nettings; seized on the tack, sheets, and halyards, and the hanks; manned the halyards, cut adrift the frapping-lines, and hoisted away; but before it was half-way up the stay it was blown all to pieces. —  Two Years Before the Mast
  • Accordingly they jostled one another and each took to frapping his fellow, making the while loud outcries. —  Arabian nights. English
  • A couple of frapping turns are then taken between the spars, around the lashing, and the lashing is finished off either round one of the spars or any part of the lashing through which the rope can be passed. —  Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition
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