French shroud knot
Nautical
noun
A knot in which the ends of two ropes are spliced by tying the separated individual strands to each other.
Origin
Early 19th century.
- pre-reader
- pre-reading
- pre-record
- prerectal
- prereduction
- prereductional
- prereductionally
- pre-reflective
- pre-reflexive
- pre-reformatory
- preregister
- preregistration
- pre-relativistic
- pre-release
- prerenal
- pre-reproductive
- prerequire
- prerequired
- supratemporal
- supraterraneous
- supraterrestrial
- suprathermal
- suprathreshold
- supratidal
- supratropical