guess warp

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or moored. dated
    — My foot touched land for the first time for ninety days when I leaped from the rail onto the dolphin at the Dock gates, slipped the end of our guess-warp over the bollard, and sang out to them inboard to take in the slack.

词形变化

guess warps plural

词源

Because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
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