Usually means: Knot used for forming loop.
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  1. bowline: Merriam-Webster
  2. bowline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bowline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bowline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bowline: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bowline, bowline: Wordnik
  7. Bowline: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. bowline: Wiktionary
  9. bowline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bowline: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bowline: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bowline, bowline: Dictionary.com
  13. Bowline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bowline: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bowline: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. bowline: FreeDictionary.org
  17. bowline: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. bowline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. bowline: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Bowline: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. bowline: Rhymezone
  22. bowline: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. bowline: Encyclopedia

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOWLINE: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bowline)

▸ noun:  (nautical) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails.
▸ noun:  (nautical) A knot tied so as to produce an eye or loop in the end of a rope that will not slip or jam.

Similar:
bowline knot, Bolin, buntline, bell rope, bolt rope, leeboard, leefang, latching, breast line, ropeband, more...

Opposite:
sternline, aftline, backline

Types:
bowline on bight, double bowline, water bowline, trucker's hitch, more...

Phrases:
bowline knot, running bowline, spanish bowline, bowline bridle, bowline bridles, more...

Adjectives:
taut, easy, double, top, single, main, ordinary, spanish, french, maintop, common



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Similar:
bowline knot, Bolin, buntline, bell rope, bolt rope, leeboard, leefang, latching, breast line, ropeband, more...

Opposite:
sternline, aftline, backline

Types:
bowline on bight, double bowline, water bowline, trucker's hitch, more...

Phrases:
bowline knot, running bowline, spanish bowline, bowline bridle, bowline bridles, on a bowline, Bowline on a bight, Double bowline, Water bowline, more...

Adjectives:
taut, easy, double, top, single, main, ordinary, spanish, french, maintop, common



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