Meaning of unreeve | Babel Free

Definitions

To withdraw or take out, as for example a rope from a block.

transitive

Examples

“He could not only splice a broken "fall⟳," and repair⟳ the sheaves and friction-rollers in a hoisting-block, but whenever the rigging got tangled aloft he could spring⟳ up the derrick like⟳ a cat and unreeve the rope in an instant.”

“But he carried all sail⟳ till the rotten main-sheet parted at the boom, and when he came up in the wind to lower the sail⟳ the main throat halyard refused to unreeve.”

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