Unreeve

Quick meaning: Unreeve is a verb meaning (transitive, nautical) To withdraw or take out, as for example a rope from a block.

Meaning

(transitive, nautical) To withdraw or take out, as for example a rope from a block.

Example Sentences

But he carried all sail till the rotten main-sheet parted at the boom, and when he came up in the wind to lower the sail the main throat halyard refused to unreeve.

He could not only splice a broken "fall," and repair the sheaves and friction-rollers in a hoisting-block, but whenever the rigging got tangled aloft he could spring up the derrick like a cat and unreeve the rope in an instant.

Word Forms

• unreeves
• unreeving
• unreeved

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unreef, unreel, unreave, unrope, derig, recall.

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