Name Report For First Name LINFORD:

LINFORD

First name LINFORD's origin is English. LINFORD means "from the linden tree ford". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LINFORD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of linford.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with LINFORD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with LINFORD - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming LINFORD

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LİNFORD AS A WHOLE:

 

NAMES RHYMING WITH LİNFORD (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (inford) - Names That Ends with inford:

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (nford) - Names That Ends with nford:

stanford blanford heanford lynford sanford hanford

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (ford) - Names That Ends with ford:

ashford pickford ransford rexford aescford aisford berford biecaford biford blandford burhford clyford guifford haraford harford huxeford jefford oxnaford picford raedford rangford redford reeford rockford rufford ryscford salford salhford stamford steathford stefford talford twiford watelford weiford wiellaford wilford wylingford telford welford watford warford twyford stafford safford rushford ruford radford oxford huxford hartford gifford clifford byford burford bickford beresford alford hlaford bradford crawford ford gilford halford hrytherford hwitford langford lawford milford orford rumford rutherford stratford tilford walford whitford rayford

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ord) - Names That Ends with ord:

alvord cord kord raynord rexlord word ord

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rd) - Names That Ends with rd:

ballard cyneheard bard gotthard ceneward willard bayard cinnard kinnard reynard

NAMES RHYMING WITH LİNFORD (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (linfor) - Names That Begins with linfor:

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (linfo) - Names That Begins with linfo:

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (linf) - Names That Begins with linf:

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (lin) - Names That Begins with lin:

lin lina lincoln lind linda lindael lindberg linddun lindeberg lindel lindell linden lindi lindie lindisfarne lindiwe lindl lindleigh lindley lindly lindsay lindsey lindy line linette linh link linka linleah linley linly linn linne linnea linnette linsay linsey lintang linton lintun linus linwood

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (li) - Names That Begins with li:

lia liam liana liane lianna libby liberty libuse lichas licia lidia lidio lidmann lidoine liealia lien liesbet liesheth liesl lieu liezel lifton ligia liisa liko lil lila lilah lili lilia lilian liliana liliane lilianna lilibet lilibeth lilie lilike lilis lilith lilium lillee lilli lillian lilliana lillie lillis lilly lillyana lilo liluye lily lilyanna lilybell lilybeth lion lionel lionell

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LİNFORD:

First Names which starts with 'lin' and ends with 'ord':

First Names which starts with 'li' and ends with 'rd':

First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'd':

labid lad ladd laird lakeland lamond leeland leland lenard lennard leod leonard leopold lloyd lludd lockwood lud luned lynd

English Words Rhyming LINFORD

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LİNFORD AS A WHOLE:



ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LİNFORD (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (inford) - English Words That Ends with inford:



Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (nford) - English Words That Ends with nford:



Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ford) - English Words That Ends with ford:


crawfordnoun (n.) A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.

hartfordnoun (n.) The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.

herefordnoun (n.) One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.

oxfordadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.

telfordadjective (a.) Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc.


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ord) - English Words That Ends with ord:


abordnoun (n.) Manner of approaching or accosting; address.
 verb (v. t.) To approach; to accost.

backswordnoun (n.) A sword with one sharp edge.
 noun (n.) In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick.

bedcordnoun (n.) A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.

bordnoun (n.) A board; a table.
 noun (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
 noun (n.) See Bourd.

broadswordnoun (n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.

bywordnoun (n.) A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.
 noun (n.) The object of a contemptuous saying.

catchwordnoun (n.) Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
 noun (n.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.
 noun (n.) A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc.

chordnoun (n.) The string of a musical instrument.
 noun (n.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
 noun (n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.
 noun (n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.
 noun (n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.
 verb (v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
 verb (v. i.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

clarichordnoun (n.) A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord.

clavichordnoun (n.) A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.

concordnoun (n.) A state of agreement; harmony; union.
 noun (n.) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league.
 noun (n.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
 noun (n.) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See Fine.
 noun (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
 noun (n.) A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
 verb (v. i.) To agree; to act together.

cordnoun (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
 noun (n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
 noun (n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
 noun (n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
 noun (n.) See Chord.
 verb (v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
 verb (v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Core

decachordnoun (n.) Alt. of Decachordon

disaccordnoun (n.) Disagreement.
 verb (v. i.) To refuse to assent.

discordnoun (n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
 verb (v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
 verb (v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.

disordnoun (n.) Disorder.

fiordnoun (n.) A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.

fjordnoun (n.) See Fiord.

forewordnoun (n.) A preface.

gordnoun (n.) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.

harpsichordnoun (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.

heptachordnoun (n.) A system of seven sounds.
 noun (n.) A lyre with seven chords.
 noun (n.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.

hexachordnoun (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

koordnoun (n.) See Kurd.

landlordnoun (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
 noun (n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house.

loordnoun (n.) A dull, stupid fellow; a drone.

lordnoun (n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
 noun (n.) One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
 noun (n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
 noun (n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
 noun (n.) A husband.
 noun (n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.
 noun (n.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah.
 noun (n.) The Savior; Jesus Christ.
 verb (v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
 verb (v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord.
 verb (v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.

miswordnoun (n.) A word wrongly spoken; a cross word.
 verb (v. t.) To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.

monochordnoun (n.) An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.

milordnoun (n.) Lit., my lord; hence (as used on the Continent), an English nobleman or gentleman.

naywordnoun (n.) A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword.

neurochordadjective (a.) Alt. of Neurochordal

neurocordnoun (n.) A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm.

notochordnoun (n.) An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

octachordnoun (n.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.

octochordnoun (n.) See Octachord.

ordnoun (n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning.

overlordnoun (n.) One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master.

passwordnoun (n.) A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.

pentachordnoun (n.) An ancient instrument of music with five strings.
 noun (n.) An order or system of five sounds.

polychordnoun (n.) A musical instrument of ten strings.
 noun (n.) An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument.
 adjective (a.) Having many strings.

rheochordnoun (n.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.

seabordnoun (n. & a.) See Seaboard.

smallswordnoun (n.) A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.

soordnoun (n.) Skin of bacon.

sordnoun (n.) See Sward.

swordnoun (n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
 noun (n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
 noun (n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
 noun (n.) The military power of a country.
 noun (n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

tetrachordnoun (n.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.

trichordnoun (n.) An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.

urochordnoun (n.) The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LİNFORD (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (linfor) - Words That Begins with linfor:



Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (linfo) - Words That Begins with linfo:



Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (linf) - Words That Begins with linf:



Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lin) - Words That Begins with lin:


linnoun (n.) A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a fall of water.
 noun (n.) A waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin.
 noun (n.) A steep ravine.
 verb (v. i.) To yield; to stop; to cease.
 verb (v. t.) To cease from.

linagenoun (n.) See Lineage.

linamentnoun (n.) Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.

linaritenoun (n.) A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.

linchnoun (n.) A ledge; a right-angled projection.

linchinoun (n.) An esculent swallow.

linchpinnoun (n.) A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.

lincturenoun (n.) Alt. of Linctus

linctusnoun (n.) Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.

lindnoun (n.) The linden. See Linden.

lindennoun (n.) A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.
 noun (n.) In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana.

lindianoun (n.) A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoologists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.

lindiformadjective (a.) Resembling the genus Lindia; -- said of certain apodous insect larvae.

linenoun (n.) Flax; linen.
 noun (n.) The longer and finer fiber of flax.
 noun (n.) A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
 noun (n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.
 noun (n.) The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.
 noun (n.) Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.
 noun (n.) A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.
 noun (n.) A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.
 noun (n.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.
 noun (n.) Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
 noun (n.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.
 noun (n.) The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.
 noun (n.) A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.
 noun (n.) Lineament; feature; figure.
 noun (n.) A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.
 noun (n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
 noun (n.) A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.
 noun (n.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
 noun (n.) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line.
 noun (n.) A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.
 noun (n.) A measuring line or cord.
 noun (n.) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
 noun (n.) Instruction; doctrine.
 noun (n.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.
 noun (n.) The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.
 noun (n.) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column.
 noun (n.) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
 noun (n.) A trench or rampart.
 noun (n.) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
 noun (n.) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
 noun (n.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
 noun (n.) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
 noun (n.) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc.
 noun (n.) The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.
 noun (n.) The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.
 noun (n.) A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.
 verb (v. t.) To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.
 verb (v. t.) To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.
 verb (v. t.) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.
 verb (v. t.) To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.
 verb (v. t.) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.
 verb (v. t.) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
 verb (v. t.) To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.
 verb (v. t.) To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.

liningnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Line
 noun (n.) The act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining.
 noun (n.) That which covers the inner surface of anything, as of a garment or a box; also, the contents of anything.

lineagenoun (n.) Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

linealadjective (a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.
 adjective (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).
 adjective (a.) Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs.
 adjective (a.) In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.

linealitynoun (n.) The quality of being lineal.

lineamentnoun (n.) One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; -- usually in the plural.

linearadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.
 adjective (a.) Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf.

linearensateadjective (a.) Having the form of a sword, but very long and narrow.

linearyadjective (a.) Linear.

lineateadjective (a.) Alt. of Lineated

lineatedadjective (a.) Marked with lines.
 adjective (a.) Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines; as, a lineate leaf.

lineationnoun (n.) Delineation; a line or lines.

lineaturenoun (n.) Anything having outline.

linemannoun (n.) One who carries the line in surveying, etc.
 noun (n.) A man employed to examine the rails of a railroad to see if they are in good condition; also, a man employed to repair telegraph lines.

linennoun (n.) Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.
 noun (n.) Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.
 noun (n.) Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc.
 noun (n.) Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen.

linenernoun (n.) A dealer in linen; a linen draper.

lineolateadjective (a.) Marked with little lines.
 adjective (a.) Marked longitudinally with fine lines.

linernoun (n.) One who lines, as, a liner of shoes.
 noun (n.) A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of-battle ship; a ship of the line.
 noun (n.) A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc.; a shim.
 noun (n.) A lining within the cylinder, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.
 noun (n.) A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.
 noun (n.) A ball which, when struck, flies through the air in a nearly straight line not far from the ground.

lingnoun (n.) Heather (Calluna vulgaris).
 adjective (a.) A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.
 adjective (a.) The burbot of Lake Ontario.
 adjective (a.) An American hake of the genus Phycis.
 adjective (a.) A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.

linganoun (n.) Alt. of Lingam

lingamnoun (n.) The phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power.

lingelnoun (n.) A shoemaker's thread.
 noun (n.) A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts.

lingencenoun (n.) A linctus.

lingeringnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Linger
 adjective (a.) Delaying.
 adjective (a.) Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease.

lingeradjective (a.) To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
 verb (v. t.) To protract; to draw out.
 verb (v. t.) To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed.

lingerernoun (n.) One who lingers.

lingetnoun (n.) An ingot.

lingismnoun (n.) A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.

linglenoun (n.) See Lingel.

lingonoun (n.) Language; speech; dialect.

lingotnoun (n.) A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.

linguanoun (n.) A tongue.
 noun (n.) A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

linguaciousadjective (a.) Given to the use of the tongue; loquacious.

linguadentalnoun (n.) An articulation pronounced by the aid or use of the tongue and teeth.
 adjective (a.) Formed or uttered by the joint use of the tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t.

lingualnoun (n.) A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a term especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t, d, th, and n) and to the letters denoting them.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.

lingualitynoun (n.) The quality of being lingual.

linguatulidanoun (n. pl.) Same as Linguatulina.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LİNFORD:

English Words which starts with 'lin' and ends with 'ord':



English Words which starts with 'li' and ends with 'rd':

liardnoun (n.) A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou.
 adjective (a.) Gray.

libbardnoun (n.) A leopard.

lizardnoun (n.) Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.
 noun (n.) A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.
 noun (n.) A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.