gobline

noun

1. One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit.

   “The gobline helps prevent the tug from being tripped or capsized when working on a towline especially if the tug is being towed stern first.”

   “This is not so important if the towline is bowsed to the stern of the tug with a gobline.”

2. The outer extent of the gob (waste material) in an old mine.

   “At Mine C, the future tailgate entry was 184 ft away from the longwall gobline and under a cover depth of 900 ft.”

   “They serve as the gobline supports for the space between the canopy tip and faceline as shields are removed one by one from the tail end to head end.”

3. (India)Goblin.

   “So, my dear Yudhishthira, the observance of the fast on the Jaya Ekadahee day saves the observer from falling into the low strata of ghosts, gobline and fiends, affords all the merits attainable by sacrifices, charities and penances and ensures pleasurable life in the Heaven for thousands of years.”

   “In the paintings of the Ajanta caves, executed when Buddhism dominated north India, "the female, or Rākshasi, is represented as a gobline in the shape of a handsome woman, red, fair, or dark, with flowing hair, killing men and feeding on their flesh and blood" (Crooke 1907:238).”

   “The gobline tilted her head.”