10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELVAGEE»
Discover the use of
selvagee in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
selvagee and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
A Selvagee is like a Loop Knot Tied in the Bight, in that it enables you to haul
heavily on a line at any point along its standing part. Because no Loop Knot is
required, you can attach a Selvagee to haul on wire rope. Or you can attach it to
rope ...
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White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War:
The article use is called a selvagee. And what could be better adapted to the
purpose? It is a slendei tapering, unstranded piece of rope prepared with much
solicitude; peculiarly flexible and wreathes and serpentines round the cable and
...
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Chapman Knots for Boaters
Selvagee. ASelvagee is like a Loop Knot Tied in the Bight, in that it enables you
to haul heavily on a line at any point along its standing part. Because no Loop
Knot is required, you can attach a Selvagee to haul on wire rope. Or you can
attach ...
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White-Jacket: Or The World In A Man-Of-War (Extended ...
One of these two quarter-deck lords went among the sailors by a name of their
own devising—Selvagee. Of course, it was intended to be characteristic; and
even so it was. In frigates, and all large ships of war, when getting under weigh, ...
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The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures
' The annexed drawing (Plate XlV.) will illustrate the process, and exhibit the
cable inall its parts. - Fig. I. The selvagee twifis b, b, Scc. are represented as
taken srom the table-wheel and backframe, and stretched in parallels, with a
temporary ...
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The Repertory of arts and manufactures [afterw.] arts, ...
will illustrate the process, and exhibit the cable in all its parts. .' Fig. 1 . The
selvagee twists b, b, &c. are represented as taken from the table-wheel and back-
frame, and stretched in parallels, with a temporary sastening, between the posts
a, a.
Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture, 1799
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The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries ...
will illustrate the process, and exhibit the cable in all its parts. Fig. i. The selvagee
twists b, b, &c. are represented as taken from the table-wheel and back- frame,
and stretched in parallels, with a temporary sastening, between the poits a, a. Fig.
Butin fine, steadyweather, when theCaptain would emergefromhis cabin,
Selvagee mightbeseen, pacing thepoopwithlong, bold,indefatigable strides, and
casting hiseyeupaloft with the most ostentatious fidelity. But vain these pretences;
...
They signify the disjunction between exterior pomp and internal weakness, the
separation between the actual self and its appearance in the world.39 Lieutenant
Selvagee, one of the Neversink's junior officers, was “captivated in the days of his
...
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The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture: ...
will illustrate the process, and exhibit the cable in all its parts. ** Fig. i. The
selvagee twists b, b, &c. are re-' presented as taken from the table-wheel and
back- frame, and stretched in parallels, with a temporary sastening, between the
posts a, ...
