Word Meanings - BOLTROPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

Related words: (words related to BOLTROPE)

• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• STITCH
  A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance. You have gone a good stitch. Bunyan. In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in
• STRENGTHENER
  One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
• STITCHER
  One who stitches; a seamstress.
• STITCHING
  1. The act of one who stitches. 2. Work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively.
• STITCHERY
  Needlework; -- in comtempt. Shak.
• STITCHWORT
  See STICHWORT
• STRENGTHEN
  1. To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak.
• STITCHEL
  A kind of hairy wool.
• EDGESHOT
  Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. Knight.
• BACKSTITCH
  A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
• HEMSTITCHED
  Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.
• BLANKET STITCH
  A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.
• GARTER STITCH
  The simplest stitch in knitting.
• CROSS-STITCH
  A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other. "Tent and cross- stitch." Sir W. Scott. -- Cross"-stitch`, v. t. & i.
• CATSTITCH
  To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.
• SPLIT STITCH
  A stitch used in stem work to produce a fine line, much used in old church embroidery to work the hands and faces of figures.
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• UNSTITCH
  To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam. Collier.
• SET-STITCHED
  Stitched according to a formal pattern. "An old set-stiched chair, valanced, and fringed with party-colored worsted bobs." Sterne.
• SPIDER STITCH
  A stitch in lace making used to fill in open spaces with threads resembling a cobweb.
• RESTRENGTHEN
  To strengthen again; to fortify anew.
• HEMSTITCH
  To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.
• CHAIN STITCH
  A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads forms a chain on the under side of the work; the loop stitch, as distinguished from the lock stitch. See Stitch. (more info) 1. An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; --
• THOROUGHSTITCH
  So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely. Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch. L'Estrange.