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bowlines

bowlines is the plural of bowline.

Meaning of bowline

Noun

bowline (plural bowlines)

  1. A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails.
  2. A knot tied so as to produce an eye or loop in the end of a rope that will not slip or jam.

Questions about bowlines

What is bowlines the plural of?
Bowlines is the plural of bowline.

Words near bowlines in the dictionary

  1. bowlike
  2. Bowlin
  3. bowlin'
  4. bowline
  5. bowlined
  6. bowlines
  7. bowling
  8. bowling a googly
  9. bowling alley
  10. Bowling Alley Point
  11. bowling alleys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowlines (page history and authors); bowline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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