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To break a strand of (a rope).

Stranded. Sir W. Scott.

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

urnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire. Barbed wire, a wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.

sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. Beach flea (Zoöl.), the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas. -- Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growin…

Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.

To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton.

Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.

The space between the strands on the outside of a rope. Knight.

A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

the glacis, or the summit of the breach. To crown a knot (Naut.), to lay the ends of the strands over and under each other.

A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.

surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand. Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. Shak.

, each other. -- Flemish eye (Naut.), an eye formed at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and lying them over each other. -- Flemish horse (Naut.), an additional footrope at the end of a yard.

grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands. Knight. All is grist that comes to his mill, all that he has anything to do with is a source of profit. [Colloq.] -- To bring grist to the maill, to bring profitable business into one's hands; to be a source of profit. [C…

A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet.

esist attack or encroachment. Atterbury. -- To take the ground to touch bottom or become stranded; -- said of a ship.

A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.

e house. Chaucer. Of him to hold his seigniory for a yearly tribute. Knolles. And now the strand, and now the plain, they held. Dryden.

A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing. Totten.