Crossword clues for reeved
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(context nautical English) Of a rope, passed through a hole, ring or pulley. v
(en-past of: reeve)
Usage examples of "reeved".
Hannibal now fetched the elephant, while the others secured pulleys to both ends of the long pole, and reeved ropes several times back and forth between them.
But the men made sure that the seam-binding ropes were reeved only loosely, and the guy ropes left slightly slack.
The cable reeved through the anchor ring followed like the body of a striking snake.
Hanging from a peg on the doorpost was a simple halter, a rye-straw rope spliced into a bight on one end with the other reeved through to form a running loop.
Nonnus had reeved the other end through a three-hole block joining the dugout's mast to the ram of the trireme.
Each a rectangle—say, six by eight feet—lapped and hemmed top and bottom so ropes can be reeved through.
Perennius squatted and cut at the horsehair rope reeved through the shaft of the nearest grapnel.