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Ratline

noun
1.
(nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft.  Synonym: ratlin.





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"Ratline" Quotes from Famous Books



... weakened his leverage, and the wind just then came fiercer, caught him, and flattened him against the rigging as tight as if Nature had caught up a mountain for a hammer and nailed him with a cedar; he was spread-eagled. The men accepted him at once as a new patent ratline with a fine resisting power: they went up him, and bounded three ordinary ratlines at a go off all his promontories, especially his shoulders and his head, receiving his compliments in the shape of hearty curses. They gained the top and lay out on the yard with their hair flying ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
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Words linked to "Ratline" :   ship, navigation, seafaring, line, sailing


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