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marline
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[ mahr-lin ]
noun
Nautical.
- small stuff of two-fiber strands, sometimes tarred, laid up left-handed.
marline
/ ˈmɑːlɪn; ˈmɑːlɪŋ /
noun
- nautical a light rope, usually tarred, made of two strands laid left-handed
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of marline1
C15: from Dutch marlijn, from marren to tie + lijn line
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These had been roasted in the fire until tough and flexible, and when thus treated they formed a good substitute for the white sailor's marline or the cow-boy's picket rope.
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“If he does that, I may be tempted to use a marline spike on him.”
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Boyce constructed a formidable battery of two guns made from stalks of sugar-cane, wound with marline and mounted upon small trucks.
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"Somebody handed him a marline spike, sir," interrupted Hickey.
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Afterwards he had peddled his gear little by little, dining one day off a riding-light, going to a theatre the next on two marline spikes and a sister-block, and so on.
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