The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Selvagee

Sea Terms

Rope yarn or spun yarn marled together and used as a strop.

Ropes and knots — cable-laid, shroud-laid and hawser-laid rope, Flemish eye, pointing, granny knot, selvagee strop, cat's-paw, Blackwall hitch, grommet and rope-yarn knot
Ropes and knots — cable-laid, shroud-laid and hawser-laid rope, Flemish eye, pointing, granny knot, selvagee strop, cat's-paw, Blackwall hitch, grommet and rope-yarn knot
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