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Fibres of old rope packed between spars, or used as a fender.
n scumbag. Someone worthy of contempt - scoundrel, rotter, that sort of thing. A rather antiquated word. I am reliably informed that the term derives from weaving, where “tow” refers to short bits of fibre left over after combing the longer flax (“line”). Tow can be used as-is for cleaning guns, lighting fires or strangling small children, or it can be made into “tow cloth”; cheap clothing worn by manual labourers. A “tow rag” is a piece of tow cloth which has finished its useful clothing life and is now being used to stop oil dripping out of the car or such like. I can’t help wondering whether “toe-rag” is the Victorian equivalent of “douchebag”.
A reference to manila fibre rope which replaced hemp as the general type of rope in the navy. Manila hemp is a type of buff-colored fiber obtained from Musa textilis, a relative of the banana plant. Today, natural fibre cordage has been mostly replaced by cordage made from synthetic fibre, such as nylon.
n cotton candy. The revolting foodstuff one can buy at fairgrounds which resembles a giant blob of fibreglass wrapped around a stick.
Traditionally, rope was made of hemp, though the rope had to be protected by tarring, since hemp rope has a propensity for rotting under nautical usage. Hemp rope was phased out when manila fibre rope, which does not require tarring, became available.
Loot (money). C'mon, let me feel the fibre of your fabric. fabric=>suit=>loot]
n another not overly complimentary word for a young lady of loose moral fibre.
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Bunco is American slang for a swindle or fraud.
Homosexual.
Not believable.
To vomit. "I drank so much I'm going to blow pies".
A Lasat exclamation of frustration. Garazeb Orrelios was fond of using this exclamation.
Block of ice is London Cockney rhyming slang for dice.Block of ice is London Cockney rhyming slang for to cheat, swindle (shice).
Afternoon. e.g. "I'll see you this afternoon mate!"
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Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
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A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
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One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.
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Alt. of Fibreless
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Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
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Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration.
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A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.
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Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
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Having fibers; made up of fibers.
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Alt. of Fibre-faced
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Alt. of Fibred
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One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
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Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.
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