Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Condemned canvas, rope, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical Old, condemned
canvas ,rope , etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.
Etymologies
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Etymology uncertain.
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Examples
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It has probably been destroyed altogether, but Rome is a great place for treasuring rubbish and rombowline, and perhaps the old keyboard still exists, with stacks of wooden and metal pipes and bundles of worm-eaten trackers, all piled up together and forgotten in some corner of the crypt, or in some high belfry room or long-closed attic above the gorgeous ceiling of the Basilica.
Stradella 1881
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