futtock-shrouds

This was even more apparent when I reached the futtock-shrouds and was surmounting the edge of the top, the wind sustaining me so completely that I am confident I might have relaxed my hand-grasp for several seconds without the slightest danger of falling.

The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" Harry Collingwood 1886

The main-top, I saw, would give me a back to lean against and also a little shelter; and in that nook I would be still more secure because the futtock-shrouds made a sort of cage about it and gave me something to catch fast to should the swell of the sea roll me off.

In the Sargasso Sea A Novel 1881

Such a rush of blood went up into my broken head with the sudden burst of joy upon me that a dead faint came upon me and I fell off into the water; and that I was floating when the boat got to me was due to the mere chance that as I dropped away from the mast one of my arms slipped into the tangle of the futtock-shrouds.

In the Sargasso Sea A Novel 1881

"Did your honour ever see an elephant go up the futtock-shrouds?"

Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood George MacDonald 1864

As the audience left their chairs for a walk on the deck, Mr. and Mrs. Mingo sprang into the fore-rigging, climbing the shrouds, and over the futtock-shrouds, disdaining to crawl through the lubber-hole to the top.

Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859

A few of us were compelled to go as high as the futtock-shrouds to secure the sails, but higher it was impossible to get.

Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale James Fenimore Cooper 1820

I had been sitting on the mast with my back against the futtock-shrouds; I now rose up with difficulty, for I was sorely bruised, and stood upon the mast clear from the water, to look around me.

Percival Keene Frederick Marryat 1820

It was a black night with cold rain, and having thrown off his oiled jacket, he was already drenched to the skin; but no environment of sunshine, green fields and woodland, and flower-scented air ever made life brighter to him than had the incident of the last few moments; and with every nerve in his body rejoicing in his victory, and her bitter words of four years back crowding his mind as a contrasting background, he danced up and over the futtock-shrouds, up the topmast-rigging, through the crosstrees, and up the topgallant-rigging to where the ratlines ended and he must climb on the runner of the royal-halyards.

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888