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A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.

• Engagedness
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• Workingmen
  of Workingman
• WORKINGDAY
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working. O, how full of briers in this working-day world. Shak.
• Engagement
  The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
• Working
  of Work
• Workingman
  A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
• WORKMENSCOMPENSATIONACT
  A statute fixing the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident, esp. the British act of 6 Edw. VII. c. 58 (1906) giving to a workman, except in certain cases of "serious and willful misconduct," a right against his emp
• Engager
  One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.
• Workable
  Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.
• Workless
  Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.
• WORKWAYSWORKWISE
  In a working position or manner; as, a T rail placed workwise, i.e., resting on its base.
• Carrigeen
  A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.
• Workaday
  See Workyday.
• Workmen
  of Workman
• Carriable
  Capable of being carried.
• Workbag
  A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.

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