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noun

Fake n. (Naut.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

Fake n. A trick; a swindle. (Slang)

verb

Fake v. t. (Naut.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.

Faking box, a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.

Fake v. t. (Slang in all its senses.)

To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

To make; to construct; to do.

To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.

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"Fake" Quotes from Famous Books

... extremely popular; and the humorist did not take it very well. "Oh, get out, get out!" he was saying, wrenching himself from the grasp of first one and then another. And Irving came out just as he exclaimed in desperation, "Just the same, I'll bet it's all a fake; I'll bet he hasn't ...

— The Jester of St. Timothy's • Arthur Stanwood Pier

... Spotty-faced One). I say, I got a job o' my own to attend to—jest pass the word to the Old Man, when he's done with this pitch, to turn up beyind the swing-boats there, and come along yourself, if yer can. It's the old lay I'm on—the prize-packets fake. ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, November 19, 1892 • Various

... he?" he murmured at length to himself. "By Jove! What a marvellous fake! On Carlyon's business, I suppose. Confound Carlyon! I'll tell him what I think of him if I come through ...

— Rosa Mundi and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... girlish flowers, but still containing the merest handful of dust. It would never corrupt, and might even serve to fertilize that simple heart, which, out of its very simplicity, had made for itself a passing idol out of what was essentially fake and base, which would have shortly crumbled to pieces out of its own baseness, had not Fate—or Providence—with kindly cruel hand forever thrown it down. Still, this was a grave, and her husband did not know ...

— Christian's Mistake • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

... his face solemn while he commented: "It ought to fit in that rack over there." He pointed to a group of half-filled racks. "We can slip a fake panel on it. Nobody will be able to tell it from any ...

— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond

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