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guess warp en · NOUN

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1. (dated) A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or moored.
   • My foot touched land for the first time for ninety days when I leaped from the rail onto the dolphin at the Dock gates, slipped the end of our guess-warp over the bollard, and sang out to them inboard to take in the slack. 1912, Kyrle Bellew, Short Stories, How I Got on the Stage:

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