Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rope leading from the wheel or steering-engine to the tiller, by which motion is given by the helmsman to the tiller and consequently to the rudder. Chains are sometimes used for this purpose.
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Examples
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Once, the wheel-rope parted, which might have been fatal to us, had not the chief mate sprung instantly with a relieving tackle to windward, and kept the tiller up, till a new one could be rove.
Chapter XXV. Rumors of War-A Spouter-Slipping for a South-Easter-A Gale 1909
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Once, the wheel-rope parted, which might have been fatal to us, had not the chief mate sprung instantly with a relieving tackle to windward, and kept the tiller up, till a new one could be rove.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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Once the wheel-rope parted, which might have been fatal to us, had not the chief mate sprung instantly with a relieving tackle to windward, and kept the tiller up, till a new rope could be rove.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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Once, the wheel-rope parted, which might have been fatal to us, had not the chief mate sprung instantly with a relieving tackle to windward, and kept the tiller up, till a new one could be rove.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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At breakfast the captain was explaining to me the dangerous consequences of breaking the wheel-rope: two hours afterwards the wheel-rope broke, and round swung the vessel.
Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845
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