Shrouding - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: shrouding Page: 2 Page 2 of about 18 results (0.002 seconds)Dead eye
a round flattish wooden block encircled by a rope or an iron band and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard used to extend the shrouds and stays and for other purposes called also deadmans eye
Lanyard
a short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships as the lanyards of the gun ports of the buoy and the like esp pieces passing through the dead eyes and used to extend shrouds stays etc
Crosstrees
pieces of timber at a masthead to which are attached the upper shrouds at the head of lower masts in large vessels they support a semicircular platform called the ldquotoprdquo
Cat harping
one of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards
Beshroud
to cover with or as with a shroud to screen
benight
to involve in darkness to shroud with the shades of night to obscure
Backstay
a rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship slanting a little aft to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast
Phenomenon happening from time immemorial
phenomenon happening from time immemorial a phenomenon is said to be happening from time immemorial when the date of its commencement is not within the memory of man or the date of its commencement is shrouded in the mists of anti quity patneedi rudrayya v velugaubantle venkayya air 1961 sc 1821 1823 1962 1 scr 836 ease ments act 1882
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