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(unreeve)

Verb

(unreev)

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

*{{quote-book, year=, author=F. Hopkinson Smith, title=Tom Grogan, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=A. W. Dimock, title=Dick in the Everglades, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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 . }}

Verb

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(unreeve)