Becue
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Becue is a verb meaning (nautical) To make fast a rope to an anchor, used when anchored over a rocky bottom, so as to allow the anchor to be hoisted from its flukes to escape an entrapment on the bottom.
Meaning
(nautical) To make fast a rope to an anchor, used when anchored over a rocky bottom, so as to allow the anchor to be hoisted from its flukes to escape an entrapment on the bottom.
Word Forms
- becues
- becuing
- becued
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include belay, moor, bend, lash, anchor, tie down.
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