train rope
Navy (now historical )
noun
A rope fastened to the trail of a gun carriage on board ship.
Origin
Early 19th century.
- meteorology
- meteorometer
- meteor shower
- meteor spectrograph
- meteor spectrography
- meteor spectroscopy
- meteor spectrum
- meteor storm
- meteor stream
- meteor trail
- metepimeron
- metepisternum
- meter
- -meter
- meter-angle
- meter-candle
- metered
- meter-feeder
- meter-feeding
- meter-gage
- meterist
- meterless
- meter maid
- meter-park
- meter-parking