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单词 bowline
释义 bowline
 /boh"lin, -luyn'/,  n.  
  1. Also called bowline knot. a knot used to make a nonslipping loop on the end of a rope. See illus. under knot.
  2.  Naut.   a rope made fast to the weather leech of a square sail, for keeping the sail as flat as possible when close-hauled.
  3. on a bowline, Naut. sailing close-hauled.
  4. on an easy bowline, Naut. close-hauled with sails well filled.
 [1275-1325; ME bouline, equiv. to bou- (perh. boue BOW2) + line LINE1]
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