Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nautical: The forward shroud of the lower rigging.
- n. plural Formerly, in English ships, the after pair of shrouds.
- n. A small line joining the outer ends of capstan-bars to confine them to their sockets while the capstan is being turned.
- n. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally to strengthen and defend her sides in collision.
- n. Tackling to fasten a load to a wagon.
- n. A strong short stick inserted loop-wise into a rope or chain that goes round a load, acting as a lever to bind the load more tightly together.
- Nautical, to tighten by binding together, as the shrouds of the lower rigging.
Wiktionary
- adj. comparative form of swift: more swift
- v. nautical, transitive To tighten (e.g. slack standing rigging) by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.
- n. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides.
- n. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
- v. (Naut.) To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.
Examples
“87 But if we attentively reflect how much swifter is the progress of corruption than its cure, and if we remember that the years abandoned to public disorders exceeded the months allotted to the martial reign of Aurelian, we must confess that a few short intervals of peace were insufficient for the arduous work of reformation.”
“Extremes must meet, it is their urgent necessity; the reason for their distance, and the greater the distance between them, the swifter will be their return and the warmer their impact: they may shatter each other to fragments or they may fuse and become indissoluble and new and wonderful, but there is no other fertility.”
“In the neighbourhood of the mountains lived the Troglodytes, men of various appearances, whom the Lixitæ described as swifter in running than horses.”
“The more of earth in the body, the swifter is the motion downward toward the earth.”
“But while there are good reasons to proceed with caution, the current crisis emphasizes the need for greater and swifter political integration if the euro - and with it, common Europe - is to survive.”
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“Last month, after more than a year of wrangling, the EU approved rules that make the imposition of certain sanctions much swifter.”
“If I stay on course today, tomorrow I move forth more effectively and swifter.”
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“Robin follows, but the mare is swifter and carries less weight.”
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“The moon had reached her summit in the heavens, and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture, and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.”
“Even a swifter response would have faced grave challenges.”
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