futtock

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One is by going along some ropes, called the futtock shrouds, when one hangs very much as a fly does crawling along the ceiling.

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  1. noun One of the curved timbers that forms a rib in the frame of a ship.

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  • This way is quite allowable for a landsman; but Jerry, having no fear of my breaking my neck before his eyes, led the way by the futtock-shroud; and, as he quickly stood up in the top, I saw his face grinning over me while I hung with my back over the ocean, very doubtful whether I could climb round so as to get hold of the topmast-shrouds Don't let your feet go till you have got a firm grip of this rope here," said he, touching the shroud. —  A Voyage round the World A book for boys
  • One is by going along some ropes, called the futtock shrouds, when one hangs very much as a fly does crawling along the ceiling. —  My First Cruise and Other stories
  • 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
  • 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"
  • The topgallant shrouds come from the head of the topgallant-rigging to the crosstrees, the topmast shrouds come from the hounds just under the crosstrees to the top, and the main, fore or mizzen shrouds, as the case may be, come from just under the tops to the vessel's side To take the pull off the tops, the shrouds are continued round to the mast as "futtock" shrouds, on the same principle as the foretopmast-stay finds its continuation in the bobstay The shrouds are "rattled down;" that is to say, thin lines are fastened across them to make a ladder for the men to go aloft. —  Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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  1. Middle English fottek, perhaps alteration of fothok : fot, foot; see foot + hok, hook; see hook.

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  1. Generally considered as a corruption of *foothook, but foothook is not found.
 

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