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Definition of Swifter
1. n. A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.
2. v. t. To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.
Definition of Swifter
1. Adjective. (comparative of swift) ¹
2. Verb. (nautical transitive) To tighten (e.g. slack standing rigging) by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swifter
1. a rope on a ship [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swifter
Literary usage of Swifter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... and for honour : yet his life Was short pre-doom'd, and at that very hour
Pallas Athene swifter sped the day, When by Achilles he must needs be slain. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... for slow locomotion while feeding, although swifter movement was effected by
the hind limbs, with the tail for a counterpoise as in the Theropoda. Fio. ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... and for honour : yet his life Was short pre-doom'd, and at that very hour
Pallas Athene swifter sped the day, When by Achilles he must needs be slain. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... for slow locomotion while feeding, although swifter movement was effected by
the hind limbs, with the tail for a counterpoise as in the Theropoda. Fio. ..."
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