sheepshank

2 definitions found

sheepshank - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

sheepshank - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sheepshank
      n 1: a knot for shortening a line