"yard-rope" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "yard-ropes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "yard-rope (plural yard-ropes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841, Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-book: Letters to the Midshipmen of the United States Navy, page 57",
          "text": "Trice down the jack-block, by letting go the halyards and hauling down on the yard-rope. Cast off the yard-rope from the slings of the yard, and hook the tye to its thimble; haul taut the halyards, and square the yard by the lists and braces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1866, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Seamanship",
          "text": "Have hands by the braces and lifts , man the yard-rope, and when ready, sway up on the yard-rope, and lower lift, steadying the yard by the braces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, John M'Leod Murphy, W. N. Jeffers, Spars and Rigging: From Nautical Routine, page 1849",
          "text": "But this plan is manifestly too expensive and troublesome to meet with much encouragement in the merchant service —a yard-rope being also requisite, in case of sending the yard up or down.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rope that goes through a block or sheave at the top of a mast that is used for hoisting or lowering a yard; gantline."
      ],
      "id": "en-yard-rope-en-noun-5ovlF51J",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "rope",
          "rope"
        ],
        [
          "block",
          "block"
        ],
        [
          "sheave",
          "sheave"
        ],
        [
          "mast",
          "mast"
        ],
        [
          "hoist",
          "hoist"
        ],
        [
          "lower",
          "lower"
        ],
        [
          "yard",
          "yard"
        ],
        [
          "gantline",
          "gantline"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) A rope that goes through a block or sheave at the top of a mast that is used for hoisting or lowering a yard; gantline."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "yard rope"
        },
        {
          "word": "yardrope"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yard-rope"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "yard-ropes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "yard-rope (plural yard-ropes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841, Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-book: Letters to the Midshipmen of the United States Navy, page 57",
          "text": "Trice down the jack-block, by letting go the halyards and hauling down on the yard-rope. Cast off the yard-rope from the slings of the yard, and hook the tye to its thimble; haul taut the halyards, and square the yard by the lists and braces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1866, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Seamanship",
          "text": "Have hands by the braces and lifts , man the yard-rope, and when ready, sway up on the yard-rope, and lower lift, steadying the yard by the braces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, John M'Leod Murphy, W. N. Jeffers, Spars and Rigging: From Nautical Routine, page 1849",
          "text": "But this plan is manifestly too expensive and troublesome to meet with much encouragement in the merchant service —a yard-rope being also requisite, in case of sending the yard up or down.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rope that goes through a block or sheave at the top of a mast that is used for hoisting or lowering a yard; gantline."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "rope",
          "rope"
        ],
        [
          "block",
          "block"
        ],
        [
          "sheave",
          "sheave"
        ],
        [
          "mast",
          "mast"
        ],
        [
          "hoist",
          "hoist"
        ],
        [
          "lower",
          "lower"
        ],
        [
          "yard",
          "yard"
        ],
        [
          "gantline",
          "gantline"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) A rope that goes through a block or sheave at the top of a mast that is used for hoisting or lowering a yard; gantline."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "yard rope"
    },
    {
      "word": "yardrope"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yard-rope"
}