Definitions for bowline

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bowline bow·line

Spelling: [boh-lin, -lahyn]

IPA: /ˈboʊ lɪn, -ˌlaɪn/

Bowline is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in bowline (beilnow).

Definitions for bowline

noun

1. Also called bowline knot. a knot used to make a nonslipping loop on the end of a rope.
2. Nautical. a rope made fast to the weather leech of a square sail, for keeping the sail as flat as possible when close-hauled.

Idioms

1. on a bowline, Nautical. sailing close-hauled.
2. on an easy bowline, Nautical. close-hauled with sails well filled.

Origin of bowline

1275-1325; Middle English bouline, equivalent to bou- (perhaps boue bow²) + line line¹

Examples for bowline

Harry had already made a bowline in a bight at the end of a line.

This did not take me the time I said, and forming a bowline I lowered it to him.

Bend one bowline to the centre of the sail, to guy it in going aloft.

The dogs' traces should be of skin and fastened with toggles or buttons to the bowline.

She was then standing on a bowline to the northward, away from the land.

A further involution makes what is termed a bowline on a bight.

The breeze was easterly—a wind which would carry us on a bowline to Jamaica.

The bowline is a loop that will not slip after the first grip.

Hence the ship sails on a bowline, or stands on a taut bowline.

The "bowline Song" indicated that he was feeling particularly jubilant.