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Webster 1913 Edition

Fake

Fake

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Noun.
[Cf. Scot.
faik
fold, stratum of stone, AS.
fæc
space, interval, G.
fach
compartment, partition, row, and E.
fay
to fit.]
(Naut.)
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

Fake

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Verb.
T.
(Naut.)
To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
Faking box
,
a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.

Fake

,
Verb.
T.
[Cf. Gael.
faigh
to get, acquire, reach, or OD.
facken
to catch or gripe.]
[Slang in all its senses.]
1.
To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
2.
To make; to construct; to do.
3.
To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is;
as, to
fake
a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it
.

Fake

,
Noun.
A trick; a swindle.
[Slang]

Webster 1828 Edition

Fake

FAKE

, n.
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn.

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