marline
Two-strand ship rope
Marline is a light rope of two loosely twisted strands, used in sailing for binding and wrapping.
Sailors wind marline around ropes or cables to prevent fraying and protect against wear: He wrapped the shrouds with marline where they passed through the spreaders.
The verb marline means to bind with such cord.
Coated with pitch
- hempIndustrial fiber crop
- twineStranded cord for tying
- yarnTwisted strand for crafts
- oakumTarred hemp for caulking
cordage · strand · fiber · ply · laid · braided · waxed · natural-fiber
Join end to end
tarred
Coated with pitch
oakum · cordage · strand · fiber · ply · laid · braided · waxed · natural-fiber · line
splice
Join end to end
serving · parceling · worming · palm · fid · needle · sailmaker
shroud
Burial cloth or covering
ratline · lanyard · block · tackle · mast · boom · spar · yard · parceling · worming
vessel
Receptacle for contents
shipwright · rigger · ropewalk · chandlery · square-rigger · schooner · clipper · maritime · seafaring · sailing
marlinehawser
Thick nautical tethering rope
cable · mooring line · anchor rope · tow line · tow rope
- blue marlinLarge Atlantic billfish
- Miami MarlinsFlorida baseball franchise
- marlin fishingAngling for large billfish
- black marlinLarge Indo-Pacific billfish