Guess Warp - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: guess warpGuess warp
A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object...
Guess rope
A guess warp...
Warp
Warp, the warp means yarn arranged lengthwise on a loom, Ess Dee Carpet Enterprises v. Union of India, AIR 1990 SC 455 (457): (1990) 1 SCC 461: (1989) Supp 2 SCR 417....
Warping
Warping. A mode of fertilizing land by the 'wrap' or deposit of flooded or tidal rivers artificially let in over the land and let off from it. Warping is an improvement within the Agricultural Holdings Act for which compensation is payable if executed with the consent of the landlord, and an improvement upon which a tenant for life may expend capital money under the Settled Land Act, 1925. See 3rd Sch., Part I. (iii.), and AGRICULTURAL HOLD-INGS and SETTLED LAND....
low warp loom
a hand loom in which the warp is carried horizontally for weaving tapestry...
allowance for bad debts
allowance for bad debts Your best guess at how much of your accounts receivable will not be collectable. In other words, your best guess at how much of your accounts receivable will be "bad debts." An "allowance for bad debts" account is kind of like a savings account for bad debts. Your company puts money into it on a periodic basis (usually monthly) as an expense of the company. When you decide that a particular account is not collectable, you tap the allowance for bad debts account to pay for the bad debt. Because you already made the allowance for bad debts, your profit and loss statement will not be out of whack in the particular month that you decide to "write-off" a particular account. Your company's accounting entries to "write off" a $500 account that you have decided is not collectable would look something like this: a debit to your allowance for bad debts account in the amount of $500 and a credit to your accounts receivable account for $500. ...
Bitts
A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor or in warping Other bitts are used for belaying belaying bitts for sustaining the windlass carrick bitts winch bitts or windlass bitts to hold the pawls of the windlass pawl bitts etc...
Bombazine
A twilled fabric for dresses of which the warp is silk and the weft worsted Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments...
Cassinette
A cloth with a cotton warp and a woof of very fine wool or wool and silk...
Cloche
An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of aeumlroplanes and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing warping devices elevator planes and the like...
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