mast rope
noun
A rope passing through a sheave in the head of a topmast, used for raising and lowering upper masts.
Origin
Old English; earliest use found in Exodus.
- know someone by sight
- know someone in the biblical sense
- know something backwards
- know something for a fact
- know something inside out
- know something like the back of one's hand
- know the ropes
- know the score
- know what one is about
- know what one is talking about
- know what one likes
- know what's what
- know which side one's bread is buttered (on)
- know who's who
- Knox, Henry
- Knox, John
- Knoxville
- Knt
- knubber
- knuckle
- knuckleball
- knuckleballer
- knucklebone
- knuckle down
- knuckle-dragger