Meanings
nounguess warp (plural guess warps)
plural guess warps · alternative guess-warp · alternative geswarp
- datednauticalA rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or moored.
My foot touched land for the first time for ninety days when I leaped from the rail onto the dolphin at the Dock gates, slipped the end of our guess-warp over the bollard, and sang out to them inboard to take in the slack.
1912, Kyrle Bellew, Short Stories, How I Got on the Stage
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