bowline : Idioms & Phrases

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Bowline bridles

  • the ropes by which the bowline is fastened to the leech of the sail.
Webster 1913

Bowline knot

  • noun a loop knot that neither slips nor jams
    bowline.
WordNet
  • . See Illust. under Knot.
Webster 1913

On a bowline

  • close-hauled or sailing close to the wind; said of a ship.
  • . (Naut.) Same as Closehauled.
Webster 1913