Sheepshank

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sheepshank \Sheep"shank`\, n. (Naut.)
     A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  sheepshank
       n : a knot for shortening a line