Crossword-Solution: MARLINE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Marline | v. | A small line composed of two strands a little twisted, used for winding around ropes and cables, to prevent their being weakened by fretting. |
| Marline | v. t. | To wind marline around; as, to marline a rope. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MARLINE | anagram | ELMIRAN, MANLIER, MARINEL, MINERAL, RAILMEN, RAMLINE |
We have 3 clues for the answer “MARLINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Nautical cord. | 1 answer |
| two-strand cord | 1 answer |
| Nautical rope. | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMZCAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MARLINE (5)
The crew call him the "sailor's waiter," as he has to furnish them with spun-yarn, marline, and all other stuffs that they need in their work, and has charge of the boatswain's locker, which includes serving-boards, marline-spikes, etc.
This chafing gear consists of worming, parcelling, roundings, battens, and service of all kinds--both rope-yarns, spun-yarn, marline and seizing-stuffs.
The next point to be considered is, that all the "small stuffs" which are used on board a ship--such as spun-yarn, marline, seizing-stuff, etc.--are made on board.
Marline-spikes were not to be found; knives wanted a prodigious deal of sharpening, and, generally, three or four were waiting round the grindstone at a time.
This man hesitated in his speech, and was rather slow in his motions, but was a pretty good sailor, and always seemed to do his best; but the captain took a dislike to him, thought he was surly, and lazy; and "if you once give a dog a bad name"--as the sailor-phrase is--"he may as well jump overboard." The captain found fault with everything this man did, and hazed him for dropping a marline-spike from the main-yard, where he was at work.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1959–1967).