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Letting out (the line)
Answer for the clue "Letting out (the line) ", 9 letters:
unreeling
Word definitions for unreeling in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. unwinding from or as if from a reel; "recorded on the unreeling film inside her"; "a long unwinding silk cocoon" [syn: unwinding ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of unreel English)
Usage examples of unreeling.
But his eyes lit up, for there was nothing Bush enjoyed more than reefing topsails and unreeling them, sending down topgallant yards and sending them up again, rousting out cables and carrying them to a stern port in readiness to be used as a spring, and in fact rehearsing all the dozens - hundreds - of manoeuvres that weather or war might make necessary.
But his eyes lit up, for there was nothing Bush enjoyed more than reefing topsails and unreeling them, sending down topgallant yards and sending them up again, rousting out cables and carrying them to a stern port in readiness to be used as a spring, and in fact rehearsing all the dozens — hundreds — of manoeuvres that weather or war might make necessary.
The light through the broken door was dazzling, and he blinked as he came out crouching through it, still unreeling the quick match.
Maybury finally was able to get his attention long enough to show him the numbers still unreeling on her lightpad.
It was rather like one of those movies directed by someone fresh out of film school, with jump cuts and flash forwards and four or five stories unreeling at the same time.