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Nettling   Listen
noun
Nettling  n.  (Rope Making)
(a)
A process (resembling splicing) by which two ropes are joined end to end so as to form one rope.
(b)
The process of tying together the ends of yarns in pairs, to prevent tangling.






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"Nettling" Quotes from Famous Books



... gain absolutely nothing in such a passage with a fisher lad? Was the billow of her persuasion to fall back from such a rock, self beaten into poorest foam? She would, she must subdue him! Perhaps she did not know how much the sides of her intent were pricked by the nettling discovery that she was not ...
— Malcolm • George MacDonald



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