small stuff

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   any light rope used on shipboard

   Broaderrope

   Narrowermarlineseizingspun yarn

Questions about small stuff

What does small stuff mean?

small stuff means "any light rope used on shipboard".

Is small stuff a common word?

small stuff is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.