iron-strap
US Whaling (now rare )
noun
A short piece of rope connecting a line to a harpoon.
Origin
Late 19th century.
- unputdownable
- unputrefied
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- unquailed
- unquailing
- un-Quakerish
- un-Quakerlike
- un-Quakerly
- unquaking
- unqualifiable
- unqualification
- unqualified
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- unquarrelsome
- unquarried
- unquartered
- unquashed
- unqueen
- unqueenlike
- unqueenly