Crossword-Solution: BOWLINE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bowline | n. | A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BOWLINE | anagram | ELBOWIN |
We have 7 clues for the answer “BOWLINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Knot that won't slip | 1 answer |
| line used to keep the sail taut against the wind | 1 answer |
| type Knot | 1 answer |
| Sailor's knot | 2 answers |
| Sail rope. | 4 answers |
| Kind of knot | 5 answers |
| KNOT, type of | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with BOWLINE (5)
Christopher, Christopher, you have sailed before the wind since first you weighed your anchor, and now you think to sail upon a bowline? You do not know your ship, young man: you will go to le’ward like a sheet of paper; I tell you so that know—I tell you so that have tried, and failed, and wrestled in the sweat of prayer, and at last, at last, have tasted grace.
Through all the storm and rush of the fight Alleyne had been aware of the voice of Goodwin Hawtayne, the master-shipman, with his constant “Hale the bowline! Veer the sheet!” and strange it was to him to see how swiftly the blood-stained sailors turned from the strife to the ropes and back.
Yet when we bale our bowline and veer the sheet our lives will hang upon the breach remaining blocked.
Cheerily, my hearts! Pull yarely on the bowline!” “By my soul! I would rather have a dry death,” quoth Sir Oliver.
But Jerry was to know Harley Kennan, and quickly, for it was Harley Kennan, a bowline around his body under his arm-pits, lowered by a couple of seamen down the generous freeboard of the _Ariel_, who gathered in by the nape of the neck the smooth-coated Irish terrier that, treading water perpendicularly, had no eyes for him so eagerly did he gaze at the line of faces along the rail in quest of the one face.
Quotes with BOWLINE (1)
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1960–2008).