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- noun nautical a short
rope , oriron cramp , used to stop theshrouds interfering with theyards
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Could the author and constructor but box-haul, club-haul, tops'l-haul, and catharpin like the briny sailors of the strand, ah me!
Voyage of the Liberdade Joshua Slocum 1877
jboyd commented on the word catharpin
Shockingly misprinted as carparthins (sic) in Edgar Vincent, _Nelson: Love and Fame_ (Yale, 2004), p. 19 — shocking because the point of the paragraph and sentence is precisely about the nature of technical terms in square-rigged sailing, and one would think a copyeditor might pay particular attention (and because the error isn't itself a known word).
December 27, 2010