guess warp

English

Etymology

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

Noun

guess warp (plural guess warps)

  1. (nautical) A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for guess warp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.