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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wire rope by which the foot of a fore-and-aft sail is secured to the boom.
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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 Various 1836
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