BOWLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bowline mean? 

• BOWLINE (noun)
  The noun BOWLINE has 1 sense:

1. a loop knot that neither slips nor jams

  Familiarity information: BOWLINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOWLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loop knot that neither slips nor jams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bowline; bowline knot

Hypernyms ("bowline" is a kind of...):

loop knot (any of various knots used to make a fixed loop in a rope)

 Context examples 

“For this shall bell swing and candle burn when I see Southampton Water once more. Cheerily, my hearts! Pull yarely on the bowline!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wolf Larsen rove a bowline in a piece of rope and slipped it under his shoulders.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Through all the storm and rush of the fight Alleyne had been aware of the voice of Goodwin Hawtayne, the master-shipman, with his constant Hale the bowline!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet when we bale our bowline and veer the sheet our lives will hang upon the breach remaining blocked.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)