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gantline
ˈgantˌline Naut. = girtline.1840 [see girt-line]. 1882 Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 61 Put one gantline on each sheer head. 1938 J. Masefield Dead Ned 45 They'd have laid me out and stripped me to a bare gantline, but for him.
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Tarring (rope)
To access stays and backstays, a seaman is lowered slowly down the stay on a gantline that is fastened loosely to the stay with a bowline. The gantline is tended by someone on deck.
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girt-line
ˈgirt-ˌline Naut. (See quots.) Cf. gantline.1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Girt-line, a rope passing through a single block, on the head of the lower masts, to hoist up the rigging thereof..The girt-line is therefore the first rope employed to rig a ship [etc.]. 1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast viii. 1...
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clothes
clothes, n. pl. (kləʊðz) Forms: 1 cláðas, 2–3 claþes, 3–4 cloþes, 3– clothes, 6–8 cloaths, (north. 3–6 clathes, -is). Also 5–6 (dial. –9) close, (5 cloysse, 6 cloese, 7–8 cloes; 5 north. clase, Sc. 6 clais, 8 clayis, 8–9 claise, claes; also 4–5 clethis, clese. [The original plural of cloth:—OE. clá-...
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