seizings

The depth to which they are sunk is regulated by ropes seven or eight yards long, called seizings, of which there are two to each net.

A Yacht Voyage Round England William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The wind had died away to a light breeze, and I was working at the main rigging, along with Plummer, putting on seizings.

The Ghost Pirates 2007

The court said the government had failed to give farm owners at least three months advance notice of seizings, and that it had failed to assess and pay compensation for improvements, such as roads and irrigation.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

Once the seizings were completed, the strand would be unhitched from the temporary fastening at the anchorage by a powerful block and tackle, let forward carefully into permanent fastenings at the end of the anchor chains and also lowered into the saddles on the tops of the towers.

The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

Once a strand had been completed, pairs of workmen would go riding down from the towers in “buggies,” compressing the wires into a cylindrical form with big clamp tongs and applying temporary “seizings,” bindings of soft wire, every fifteen inches or so, to hold the strand together until all nineteen strands of the cable had been strung and could be clamped into one compact unit.

The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

She had then been recaulked and coppered; besides having her rigging set up again and tarred down, as well as the coverings and seizings replaced, and the chaffing gear paid over.

Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

"I s'pose that's somebody come aboard for a yard o 'tape, or the seizings of a pair of shoes," he growled.

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

The varieties of lashings, seizings, whippings, and servings are almost innumerable, but a few of the best and most frequently used are the "Wedding Knot" or "Rose Lashing," the "Deadeye Lashing," the

Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise 1912

Whenever any of the standing rigging becomes slack, (which is continually happening,) the seizing and coverings must be taken off, tackles got up, and after the rigging is bowsed well taught, the seizings and coverings replaced; coverings which is a very nice piece of work.

Chapter III. Ship’s Duties-Tropics 1909

These we bent on very carefully, with strong robands and seizings, and making tackles fast to the clews, bowsed them down to the water-ways.

Chapter XXV. Rumors of War-A Spouter-Slipping for a South-Easter-A Gale 1909