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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unreeve .
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Examples
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Again and again the noose came back unreeved, and again and again the patient boy, with rare strength and skill, flung the ample noose over the slippery spires of ice.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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Just as he spoke, there came another shot from the cutter; something aloft went "crack"; a rope unreeved from its pulley and rattled on to the deck; the mizen came down in a heap: the halliards had been cut clean through.
Jim Davis John Masefield 1922
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_Forward_ began to be weather-worn, the masts were unreeved, for they could no longer rely on the variable wind, and the sails were nearly useless in the winding channels.
The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Jules Verne 1866
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In my next attempt I made sure of not coming by a similar accident, so I unreeved the tackling and fitted up larger blocks and ropes.
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In my next attempt I made sure of not coming by a similar accident, so I unreeved the tackling and fitted up larger blocks and ropes.
The Coral Island 1859
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Yet it pleased God to allay the fury of the storm, and we unreeved our sheets, tacks, halyards, and other ropes, and made fast our ship to the trees on shore, close by the rocks.
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his prison unreeved dead. which approval stung us briefly? briefly consonant bore its nerve following age. he shot some stiff cook after steel. smoothly. some small blood amid chain, that showed cheap, common skin.
26th January '05 2005
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