Grommet Small 320×320 Medium 639×640 Large 1023×1024 Download Tiff Original 2400×2403 | (657.3 KB) Description "Grommet. Naut., a ring of rope used for various purposes, made from a strand laid three times round its own central part formed into a loop of the desired size." -Whitney, 1911 Keywords grommet, Knot, loop, nautical, ring, Rope, ship rope Galleries Knots Source: William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)
