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bowline
[ boh-lin, -lahyn ]
noun
- Also called bowline knot. a knot used to make a nonslipping loop on the end of a rope.
- Nautical. a rope made fast to the weather leech of a square sail, for keeping the sail as flat as possible when close-hauled.
bowline
/ ˈəʊɪ /
noun
- a line for controlling the weather leech of a square sail when a vessel is close-hauled
- on a bowlinebeating close to the wind
- a knot used for securing a loop that will not slip at the end of a piece of rope
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bowline1
Idioms and Phrases
- on a bowline, Nautical. sailing close-hauled.
- on an easy bowline, Nautical. close-hauled with sails well filled.
Example Sentences
The tables he figured now were longer “than main to bowline.”
Demonstrating her knowledge, and the skill she picked up as an 8-year-old, she looped a piece of microphone cable into a bowline knot.
“That’s what we do — we fish,” he said, looping the bowline through his Bayliner’s starboard cleat as he was about to launch last Thursday, the first time in weeks.
But while my adult leaders were teaching me how to tie a bowline hitch, adult leaders in other troops were preying on boys like me.
Though I spent the first half of my life sailing, I acquired none of the skills – I couldn’t even manage a bowline knot.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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