Word Meanings - CAT-HARPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.

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• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• TOWARDNESS
  Quality or state of being toward.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• SHORTLY
  1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• SHORT-JOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• SHORT-DATED
  Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
• SHORT-WAISTED
  Having a short waist.
• SWEEPING
  Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping
• SWEEP-SAW
  A bow-saw.
• SWEEPY
  Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.
• BRACELET
  1. An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls. 2. A piece of defensive armor for the arm. Johnson.
• TOWARDLY
  See DRYDEN
• SHORTENING
  That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc. (more info) 1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
• YARDSTICK
  A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• COUNTER BRACE
  The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
• PEASWEEP
  The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.
• VAMBRACE
  The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
• VANTBRACE; VANTBRASS
  Armor for the arm; vambrace. Milton. (more info) Armor)