line slip

"Damnation, Ramage, you let a couple of ships of the line slip through our fingers while you went chasing after a couple of frigates!"

The sergeant's wrath and then fear had somehow made the line slip, so that the unsupported cups now gave the moustaches-normally waxed when on parade - a defeated droop.

This would punish Oracle for letting insider information regarding the Itanium line slip to the public and would allow Intel to continue making money from the line.

Guides come in many different grades and materials with the objective of providing the best combination of flex with the rod, hardness to reduce wear from the line action, and polish to make the line slip through the guide easily.

Conan knew, and as he saw the broad line slip into the waves and stream through the water toward them, without altering its shape or course, he called up his last ounce of reserve strength so fiercely that the oar snapped in his hands.

To drum up interest and defray costs, he has brought over a similar craft he used to sail the Mediterranean in 2002 and anchored it off the Circle Line slip at 42nd Street in Manhattan; visitors will be charged a fee.