Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of strand is as below...

Loper :: Loper (n.) A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands..

Houseline :: Houseline (n.) A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing.

Hawser :: Hawser (n.) A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.

Cord :: Cord (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together..

Snake :: Snake (v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm..

Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning..

Strand :: Strand (v. t.) To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope..

Stranding :: Stranded (imp. & p. p.) of Stran.

Cablelaid :: Cablelaid (a.) Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable..

Flat :: Flat (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand..

Astrand :: Astrand (adv. & a.) Stranded.

Grist :: Grist (n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands..

Aground :: Aground (adv. & a.) On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.

Yarn :: Yarn (n.) One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.

Strand :: Strand (n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed..

Three-ply :: Three-ply (a.) Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold..

Contline :: Contline (n.) The space between the strands on the outside of a rope.

Strand :: Strand (v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope).

Masoola Boat :: Masoola boat () A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras, India. The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a wadding of the same material, so that the shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced..

Random Fonts

Most Popular