A line (rope, webbing or cable), attached to a boat at the ends, to which a safety harness can be clipped to restrain falling in rough conditions and to prevent falling overboard.
A stay (rope, bar or batten), running along a ship's yard, to which is attached the head of a square sail.
A cable between two ships or from a ship to a fixed point which can be used to support a load during transfer of personnel or materiel along the cable.
A line fixed at both ends, which may be used to guide a load or a diver along the route of the line. Uses include guidance to and from the underwater work site, and as a means of controlling an underwater search.
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
Fixed limit.
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
Being a fixed limit game.
To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
To have a limit in a particular set.