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Definition of Chafing gear
1. Noun. Covering (usually rope or canvas) of a line or spar to protect it from friction.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chafing Gear
Literary usage of Chafing gear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"This chafing gear consists of worming, parcelling, round- ings, battens, and
service of all kinds, — rope-yarns, spun-yarn, marline, and seizing-stuffs. ..."
2. The Kedge Anchor, Or Young Sailors' Assistant by William N. Brady (1852)
"... AND chafing gear. The breadth of mats for lanyards of rigging, is determined
by the size of the dead-eye, which the mat ought nearly to cover ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"This chafing gear consists of worming, parcelling, rounding, battens, and service
of all ... Taking off, putting on, and mending the chafing gear alone, ..."
4. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, (, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (2001)
"... or the yards are chafing or wearing upon it, there "chafing gear," as it is
called, must be put on. This chafing gear consists of worming, parcelling, ..."
5. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce, United States Naval Academy (1898)
"The officer of the quarter-deck will see to the lowering apparatus on lifeboats,
all davits rigged in and boats secured for sea, chafing gear put on, etc. ..."
6. The British Merchant Service: Being a History of the British Mercantile by R. J. Cornewall-Jones (1898)
"Whenever any of the numberless ropes, or the yards, or other spars are chafing,
then "chafing-gear," as it is called, must be put on. ..."
7. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature by London International Fisheries Exhibition (1884)
"... in repair, supplying all chafing gear where required. The meaning of these
two sentences is a complete puzzle when looked at as applying to trawlers, ..."
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