Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rope sewn into the outer edge of a sail to prevent it from tearing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A superior kind of hemp cordage sewed on the edges of sails to strengthen them.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
bolt-rope .
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Examples
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The bending of the staysail was no very serious matter; it simply meant letting go the halliards, dragging upon the downhaul, cutting the boltrope away from the hanks, passing the new seizings, hoisting the sail foot by foot until I had got all the seizings finished, bending the sheets afresh, and there we were.
The Castaways Harry Collingwood 1886
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The spray was dashing over her bows, and her jib was wet several feet above the boltrope.
Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway Oliver Optic 1859
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He advises that Telefónica Blue have to consider their tactics in avoiding going hard on the wind, when the risks of not having the forestay as a back up to the boltrope are more concerning.
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