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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The wire rope by which the foot of a fore-and-aft sail is secured to the boom. It runs fore and aft through the eyes screwed in on top of the boom, and through small thimbles sewed on the bolt-rope, on the foot of the sail, at every seam.
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“She professed to have been unable to see anything going on in the house from her place of confinement, but in the room at Enfield Wash there was a large hole through the floor for a jack-rope, which gave a full view of the kitchen, where the inmates of the house chiefly resorted.”
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852
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