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  1. n. nautical A nautical and knot-tying term for thin string, as opposed to the thick, heavy ropes that are more often used in sailing. It is commonly used in a whipping knot to bind the ends of ropes to prevent fraying.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Naut.) spun yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope.
  2. n. (Naut.) all kinds of small cordage.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any light rope used on shipboard

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  • “To her advantage, she was impatient with small stuff and detail, and with the fussing and adjusting that the dilettante in any field tries to substitute for inspiration and thus rescue his art.”

    Fictionaut: La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth

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  1. rope

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  1. spun yarn
  1. seizing
  1. marline

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  1. marline
  2. seizing
  3. spun yarn
  4. service-board
  1. chlanis
  2. fichu
  3. lumber
  4. pall
  1. resawing-machine
  2. snake-line
  3. stauracin
  4. mousing
  1. seize
  2. sennit
  3. whip
  4. bandana
  1. keeler
  2. marl
  3. patchwork
  4. racking
  1. shirring
  2. snake
  3. wing

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