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Gobline :: Gobline (n.) One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

Scrape :: Scrape (n.) A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment..

Disbowel :: Disbowel (v. t.) To disembowel.

Steeve :: Steeve (n.) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving..

Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee..

Crease :: Crease (n.) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.

Rainbow :: Rainbow (n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain..

Bowed :: Bowed (imp. & p. p.) of Bo.

Juke :: Juke (v. i.) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.

Unboweling :: Unboweling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Unbowe.

Relax :: Relax (n.) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels..

Iris :: Iris (n.) The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods..

Unbowel :: Unbowel (v. t.) To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel.

Hulk :: Hulk (v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare..

Stringer :: Stringer (n.) One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows..

Nineholes :: Nineholes (n. pl.) A game in which nine holes are made in the ground, into which a ball is bowled..

Ginglymus :: Ginglymus (n.) A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle..

Fore :: Fore (adv.) In or towards the bows of a ship.

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

Overhang :: Overhang (n.) The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line.

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