Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Nautical A rope attached to the lower border of a sail.
- n. Nautical A rope, rigged beneath a yard, for sailors to stand on during the reefing or furling of sail.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nautical: The bolt-rope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
- n. A rope extended under a yard from the middle to the yardarm, and under the jib- and spanker-booms, for the men to stand on while reefing or furling.
Wiktionary
- n. nautical a rope attached to the lower part of a sail
- n. nautical a rope attached to a yard that sailors stood on to stabilize it when furling or reefing
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a
horse . - n. That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
Etymologies
- foot + rope (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When it came my time, I stepped past the Kidona swanneck that secured the footrope of the bridge and out onto it.”
“The only weapon to hand was the cavalla sabre thrust into the earth and securing the footrope of the bridge.”
“A swanneck driven into the earth secured the end of the fine yellow footrope closest to me.”
“She curled her feet about the footrope she had braced them on and made her grip more firm.”
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“Then, making up my bunt and putting into it the slack of the clews, the leech and footrope and the body of the sail, I hauled it well up on the yard, smoothed the skin, brought it down abaft, and made fast the bunt-gasket round the mast.”
“Kampke was blown overboard off the footrope that ran under the yard, as he stood there hauling in on the sail.”
“The enraged men caught him just outside the door, slammed in his face by Macklin, and I had one glimpse of him as I scrambled in along the footrope.”
“We'll be through in another two minutes --" he began, and then came a terrific shock, and both he and I were jerked off the footrope, and toppled over the yard on to the bellying foresail!”
"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
“The principle was to set his feet on the rope with his arms over the yard, then, holding the yard in his armpits, to shuffle sideways along the footrope to cast off the gaskets and loose the sail.”
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