siezing

Noun

seizing (countable and uncountable, plural seizings)

1. The act of grabbing or taking possession.
2. (in plural) Something seized.
   • The pirates buried their seizings and marked the map with an X.
3. A type of lashing or binding by a small cord.
   • Cut your seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!”
     Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 36”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
   1. Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.

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