Vocab

Vocab:

Phantom (110)- a person or thing of merely illusory power, status, efficacy

Grommets (122)- a ring having a thickness of three strands, made by forming a loop of a single strand, then laying the ends around the loop.

Outhaul (122)- a rope used for hauling out a sail on a boom, yard, etc.

Halyard (136)- any of various lines or tackles for hoisting a spar, sail, flag, etc., into position for use.

Idjit (137)- a made up name for a person who is being dumb

Sump (54)- a chamber at the bottom of a machine, pump, circulation system

Holed (30)- cooped up

Sutures (233)- a sewing together or a joining as by sewing.

Cresting (187)- a decorative coping, balustrade

Leering (187)- to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention