"guess warp" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "guess warps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "guess warp (plural guess warps)",
      "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"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912, Kyrle Bellew, Short Stories, How I Got on the Stage",
          "text": "My foot touched land for the first time for ninety days when I leaped from the rail onto the dolphin at the Dock gates, slipped the end of our guess-warp over the bollard, and sang out to them inboard to take in the slack.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or moored."
      ],
      "id": "en-guess_warp-en-noun-20Mlh3g~",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "rope",
          "rope"
        ],
        [
          "hawser",
          "hawser"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ],
        [
          "tow",
          "tow"
        ],
        [
          "moor",
          "moor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical, dated) A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or moored."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "guess warp"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "guess warps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "guess warp (plural guess warps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912, Kyrle Bellew, Short Stories, How I Got on the Stage",
          "text": "My foot touched land for the first time for ninety days when I leaped from the rail onto the dolphin at the Dock gates, slipped the end of our guess-warp over the bollard, and sang out to them inboard to take in the slack.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or moored."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "rope",
          "rope"
        ],
        [
          "hawser",
          "hawser"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ],
        [
          "tow",
          "tow"
        ],
        [
          "moor",
          "moor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical, dated) A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or moored."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "guess warp"
}