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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

... can't understand," agreed Little. "He knows so much that he must know about this fake. If he does, what could be his object in letting ...

— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle

... about a middlin' little bit, you bet I 'ave, And I ain't what Barber BIDDLECOMBE would call "a heasy shave"; But these Sanitary codgers give me beans, and no mistake. I am fly to most all capers, but don't tumble to their fake. ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 102, Jan. 9, 1892 • Various

... did not deride my absence of definiteness, he only deplored it. But I really got more out of the subsequent talk. We adjourned to a sort of portico, a pretty place looking on to a formal garden: it was really very charmingly done—a clever fake of an, old garden, but with nothing really beautiful about it. It looked as if no one had ever lived in it, though the illusion of age was skilfully contrived—old paving-stones, old bricks, old lead vases, but all looking as if ...

— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson

... little blonde with him, but when she saw his fake money, I guess she gave him the slip, for he turned to the right and she went up the street ...

— A Royal Prisoner • Pierre Souvestre

... a fake, then that other fellow who tried to head us off must 'ave been a party to ...

— The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands • J. W. Duffield

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