Marline
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A thin two-strand rope, usually tarred, used aboard ships for binding, seizing, or whipping the ends of larger ropes to prevent fraying.
“The bosun used marline to bind the fraying end of a halyard before it could unravel any further.”
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mar·line
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Ends in -INE and starts with MARL, a nautical term composed entirely of common letters
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Worth 9 points, valid in Scrabble dictionaries and useful for clearing a rack of common tiles efficiently
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