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geswarp

geswarp is the alternative form of guess warp.

Meaning of guess warp

Noun

guess warp (plural guess warps)

  1. (dated) A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or moored.
    • My foot touched land for the first time for ninety days when I leaped from the rail onto the dolphin at the Dock gates, slipped the end of our guess-warp over the bollard, and sang out to them inboard to take in the slack.1912, Kyrle Bellew, Short Stories, How I Got on the Stage

Forms of geswarp

pluralgeswarps

Questions about geswarp

What is geswarp the alternative form of?
Geswarp is the alternative form of guess warp.

Words near geswarp in the dictionary

  1. gesturingly
  2. gesturings
  3. gesuip
  4. gesundheit
  5. Gesves
  6. geswarp
  7. geswarps
  8. get
  9. get 'em stories
  10. get 'em story
  11. get 'er done

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Adapted from Wiktionary: geswarp (page history and authors); guess warp (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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