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n. Nautical A binding of larger lines made with multiple turns of smaller line.

n. Nautical The smaller line so used.

n. a type of lashing or binding by a small cord

v. Present participle of seize.

n. The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

n.

n. The operation of fastening together or lashing.

n. The cord or lashing used for such fastening.

n. The act of taking hold or possession.

n. Nautical, the operation of fastening, binding, or lashing with several turns of a cord, or the fastening so made; also, the cord used for that purpose; seizing-stuff. See also cut under rose-lashing.

n. the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)

n. small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together

""I don't know where else petitioners like us can go without going to a national bureau," said Jiang Rongsheng, a petitioner from Anhui province who has been to the national petitions office three times in the past year to protest what he describes as the seizing of land by local officials without an offer of compensation."

small stuff   

round seizing    cross seizing    eye-seizing    flat seizing    riding seizing   

prehensile   

seize   

appeasing    easing    freezing    pleasing    sneezing    squeezing    teasing    wheezing