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Brigue :: Brigue (n.) To contend for; to canvass; to solicit.

Cot :: Cot (n.) A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed..

Rombowline :: Rombowline (n.) Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear..

Linoleum :: Linoleum (n.) A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below)..

Panel :: Panel (n.) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place..

Cap :: Cap (n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope..

Canvas :: Canvas (n.) A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil..

Reef-band :: Reef-band (n.) A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made.

Breastband :: Breastband (n.) A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding..

Canvas :: Canvas (n.) A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc..

Canvas :: Canvas (n.) A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make..

Gore :: Gore (v.) A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part..

Punka :: Punka (n.) A machine for fanning a room, usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas, and suspended from the ceiling. It is kept in motion by pulling a cord..

Canvassed :: Canvassed (imp. & p. p.) of Canvas.

Parceling :: Parceling (n.) Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc..

Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds.

Knapsack :: Knapsack (v. t.) A case of canvas or leather, for carrying on the back a soldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler..

Monk''s Seam :: Monk's seam () An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches..

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