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Liz′ard.


1. (Nautical.) a. A piece of rope having one or more legs with thimbles acting as fairleaders or for other purposes.

b. The top-gallant lizard is a rope with one end hitched to a hole in the royal-pole and the other spliced round a thimble on the hauling part of the mast-rope. It keeps the mast from turning over when its head comes below the topmast crosstrees.

2. A crotch of timber or a forked limb, used as a sled to support a stone being hauled off a field. A stone-boat.

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