Wale Knot [with Sailors]

Wale Knot [with Sailors]
a round knot, so made with the lays of a rope that it cannot slip.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

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Urbane
Wale Knot [with Sailors]
Wall
To give one the Wall
Waˊntonness
Waˊpentakes
Wapp [in a Ship]
Wax-chandlers
Wence [in Kent]
Windlass, or Windless
Wontlings
Wong, or Wang
Xeriff