Marline

Origin

French merliner.

Full definition of marline

Noun

1. A light cord or rope used to bind the end of a larger rope, to prevent fraying.
• 1749 (Sunday 26th May), John Newton's journalA young man, who has been the whole voyage out of irons, first on account of a large ulcer, and since for his seeming good behaviour, gave them a large marline spike down the gratings, but was happily seen by one of the people.
2. Twine used similarly.

Derived terms

• marlinspike

Verb

1. (nautical) To wind marline around.to marline a rope

Anagrams

• manlier
• mineral