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"Fake. Naut., one of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil, as one of the oblong loops into which a shot-line is wound in being placed in a faking-box." -Whitney, 1911

Rope Coiled in Fakes on Deck

"Fake. Naut., one of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser as it lies in a coil; a single turn…