Flemish

Quick meaning: Flemish is a noun meaning (nautical) Ellipsis of Flemish coil (“a rope that has been arranged into a neat, flat spiral coil”).

Meaning

(nautical) Ellipsis of Flemish coil (“a rope that has been arranged into a neat, flat spiral coil”).

More Meanings

1. (transitive, nautical) Often followed by down: to arrange (a rope) into a neat, flat spiral coil.

Example Sentences

A coiled, faked, or flemished down line is said to be laid up in coils, fakes, or flemishes.

Frequently fancy Flemishes are made, for example, with a regular Flemish coil in the center and the rest of the line placed in various shapes about it but always so as to retain the appearance of a mat.

The two Swedish sailors on deck, lounging and spitting into the water, seemed not to have been kept up to their duties, for paint work and bright work were far from brilliant, and the ropes were badly pointed and flemished.

In about twenty minutes, after the messenger had been stowed away, the cables coiled in the tiers, and the ropes flemished down on deck, the captain made his appearance, and directed the first-lieutenant to send aft the newly impressed men.

Word Forms

• flemishes
• flemishing
• flemished

Related Words

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