Flemish

Definitions

1. Standard Dutch as it is spoken in Flanders.
2. Ellipsis of Flemish coil (“a rope that has been arranged into a neat, flat spiral coil”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
3. flamenco
4. West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.
5. insolent, cheeky
6. Fleming, a Flemish person
7. flamingo (bird)

Equivalents

Examples

“He really knew more of the ropes than half the mess did, though he had made no show⟳; he could have⟳ managed to stow the mizen-royal in a squall by himself, if such had been now proper in his position; there were even two or three out-of-the-way knots, splices, and flemishes—practised by veteran A.B.'s alone, revealed to few, and only to be acquired with perfection in the studious solitude of the merchant service, with which Dick Diamond could be seen in sequestered corners to perplex raw hands of the waist or after-guard, he having singular instincts for that art—but some of which Harry could have⟳ explained in passing by.”

“Frequently fancy Flemishes are made, for example, with a regular Flemish coil in the center and the rest⟳ of the line placed in various shapes about it but always so as to retain⟳ the appearance of a mat.”

“A coiled, faked, or flemished down line is said to be laid up in coils, fakes, or flemishes.”

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