1. A rope used to confine the bars of the capstan in their sockets, or to strengthen and defend from external injury the sides of a boat; also applied to the forward shrouds.

2. To stretch, as shrouds by tackles.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• swite,
• swited,
• swiftely,
• swiftley,
• sfter,
• swife,
• swifted,
• swater,
• safter,
• swiffed,
• siffter,
• seighter,
• swinter,
• swiftler,
• switer,
• siggher,
• saigher,
• Smighten,
• Switte,
• swiffter