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guess-warp Naut.|ˈgɛswɔːp|
Also 5 gyes-, 9 ges-, guest-warp.
[The first element is of doubtful origin: see quot. 1862 (sense 1) and guest-rope guess-rope); the second is warp n.]
1. ‘A rope carried to a distant object, in order to warp a vessel towards it, or to make fast a boat’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). By some writers applied to any rope used to attach a boat astern of a vessel.
1495–7Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 272 Bote roppes for the seid Shippes Grete bote, ij. Gyes warpes, j. Boy ropes, vij. 1730Capt. W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of the ‘Lyell’ 15 July, At 3 made a Guess Warp, with the Stream Cable and a 7 Inch Hawser bent to the Stream Anchor. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast. xiv. 33 The boats are..made fast astern, or out to the swinging-booms, by ges-warps. 1862Nares Seamanship (ed. 2) 87 In laying out a guesswarp, the whole hawser is taken in the boat, and the end is brought back to the ship, the distance being ‘guessed’.
2. = guest-rope 2. Also attrib. in guess-warp boom (see quot. 1867).
1833Marryat P. Simple viii, Oblige me by under-running the guess-warp. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Guest-warp boom, a swinging span (lower studding boom) rigged from the ship's side with a warp for boats to ride by. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vii. (ed. 2) 260 A ‘guess warp’ is to be stretched alongside each ship's sides for boats whilst loading, to ride by. |