flemish

Meaning

Verb

  • Often followed by down: to arrange (a rope) into a neat, flat spiral coil.

Origin

  • The noun is an , so called because the technique of coiling rope in this manner began with sailors from Flanders.
  • The verb is from Flemish, from Flemish coil.

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