Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rope that keeps a square sail from bellying when it is being hauled up for furling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun one of the ropes attached to the foot-ropes of square sails and led up to the masthead, and thence on deck, to assist in hauling up the sail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
revolver with an exceptionally longbarrel . - noun nautical Any, except the outermost, of the ropes extending down to the deck with which a square sail is rolled up to the
yard .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All this time, I was busily working, unreeving the port buntline.
The Ghost Pirates 2007
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All this time, I was busily working, unreeving the port buntline.
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Bights of buntline and other ropes were dangling from above, only waiting to be swung from.
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[9] -- For the benefit of those who know what a buntline on a sail is,
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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[3] -- For the benefit of those who know what a buntline on a sail is,
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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Why, that same Seldom Helward I ironed and ran up on the fall of a main-buntline.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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Peaks, on the main topmast-stay, caught Howe in the very act of passing the gasket through the bight of the buntline.
Down the Rhine Young America in Germany Oliver Optic 1859
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Bitts tried to cry out; but when he did so, Phillips ordered the hands at the buntline to haul taut.
Down the Rhine Young America in Germany Oliver Optic 1859
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Each left a hook in the knot of the inner buntline, as he went out, and dropped the ball of marline on deck.
Homeward Bound or, the Chase James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Doing OK though, until I round the windward mark and discover that my mainsheet has tied itself into a triple buntline carrick bend double surgeon's clinch knot inside a double fisherman's alpine butterfly rolling hitch and so I am unable to sheet out and bear away.
Proper Course 2008
reesetee commented on the word buntline
A rope attached to the foot of a square sail to haul it up to the yard for furling.
February 23, 2008