Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
Hard, indurated clay; bind.
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
A curve.
The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
To stoop.
To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
To cause to change direction.
To change direction.
To force to submit.
To submit.
To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
To apply to a task or purpose.
To become curved.
To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
To be inclined; to direct itself.
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
To swing the body when rowing.
A knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first.