guess-warpn.
/ˈɡɛswɔːp/ Nautical.
1. ‘A rope carried to a distant object, in order to warp a vessel towards it, or to make fast a boat’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). By some writers applied to any rope used to attach a boat astern of a vessel.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel
fast1440
mooring chain1485
guess-warp1495
mooring1681
gift-rope1704
moorings1750
mooring-cablea1785
steady-fast1867
1495–7 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 272 Bote roppes for the seid Shippes Grete bote, ij. Gyes warpes, j. Boy ropes, vij.
1730 W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 15 July At 3 made a Guess Warp, with the Stream Cable and a 7 Inch Hawser bent to the Stream Anchor.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiv. 33 The boats are..made fast astern, or out to the swinging-booms, by ges-warps.
1862 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 2) 87 In laying out a guesswarp, the whole hawser is taken in the boat, and the end is brought back to the ship, the distance being ‘guessed’.
2. = guest-rope n. 2. Also attributive in guess-warp boom (see quot. 1867).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > rope for boats coming alongside
guest-rope1794
guess-warp1834
guest-line1926
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. viii. 95 Oblige me by under-running the guess warp.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Guest-warp boom, a swinging span (lower studding boom) rigged from the ship's side with a warp for boats to ride by.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vii. 215 A ‘guess warp’ is to be stretched along each ship's sides for boats whilst loading, to ride by.
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