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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a round, bag-shaped fender of interwoven rope, filled with granulated cork, oakum, hemp or manila fiber, etc. It is used to protect a vessel's sides from a towboat or from the sides of a dock when entering a slip.
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