 | J. J. Moore - English language - 1805 - 300 pages
...passing four or five turns of a large cable-laid rope, round the hull or frame of a" ship in the middle, when it is apprehended that' she is not strong enough to resist the violent efforts of .the sea. GwHj-FREE. See SAVING large FREEING, the act of pumping, or otherwise... | |
 | Dictionary - Commerce - 1844 - 412 pages
...rope round the hull or frame of a ship in the middle, to support her in a great storm or otherwise, when it is apprehended that she is not strong enough to resist the violence of the waves. This expedient is however rarely put in practice, unlesss in very old ships which their owners... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 836 pages
...large cablelaid rope round the hull or frame of a ship, to support her in a great storm, or otherwise, when it is apprehended that she is not strong enough to resist the violent efforts of the sea. This expedient, however, is rarely put in practice." In ancient times it... | |
 | Horatio Balch Hackett - Bible - 1852 - 446 pages
...large cable-laid rope round the hull or frame of a ship, to support her in a great storm, or otherwise, when it is apprehended that she is not strong enough to resist the violent efibrts of the sea. This expedient, however, is rarely put in practice." In ancient times it... | |
 | Henry Alford - Bible - 1852 - 798 pages
...large cable-laid rope round the hull or frame of a ship, to support her in a great storm, or otherwise, when it is apprehended that she is not strong enough to resist the violent efforts of the sea : this expedient, however, is rarely put in practice." Falconer's Marine... | |
 | William Gilson Humphry - Apostles - 1854 - 266 pages
...five turns of a large rope round the hull or frame of a ship, to support her in a storm, or otherwise, when it is apprehended that she is not strong enough to resist the violent efforts of the sea (Falconer's Marine Diet.). Trjv 2v'joT¿i/.] English Version, 'the quicksands.'... | |
 | William John Conybeare - 1854 - 584 pages
...large cable-laid rope round the hull or frame of a ship, to support her in a great storm, or otherwise, when it is apprehended that she is not strong enough to resist the violent efforts of the sea.'7 of the most remarkable proofs of the truth of this statement is to be... | |
 | John Blackburn - 1854 - 392 pages
...large cablelaid rope round the hull or frame of a ship, to suppoit her in a great storm, or otherwise when it is apprehended that she is not strong enough to resist the violent efforts of the sm; this expedient, however, is tardy put in practice." 'Ihe cables generally... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - Bible - 1859 - 468 pages
...large cable-laid rope round the hull or frame of a ship, to support her in a great storm, or otherwise, when it is apprehended that she is not strong enough to resist the violent efforts of the sea." This expedient is not often put into practice in modern times, though... | |
 | William John Conybeare, John Saul Howson - 1867 - 590 pages
...cable-laid rope round the hull or frame of a ship, to support her in a great storm, or otherwise, wheo it is apprehended that she is not strong enough to resist the violent efforts of the sen.' of the most remarkable proofs of the truth of this statement is to be... | |
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To frap a ship (ceintrer un vaisseau) is to pass four or five turns of a large cablelaid rope round the hull or frame of a ship, to support her in a great storm, or otherwise, when it is apprehended that she is not strong enough to resist the violent... 
