gantline
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Noun[edit]
gantline (plural gantlines)
- (nautical) A line rigged to a mast, used to hoist rigging.
- Synonym: girtline
- 1909, William Hope Hodgson, The Ghost Pirates, Chapter IV:
- A moment later, I saw the man's head appear over the top. He had the tail-block slung round his neck, and the end of the gantline over his shoulder.
- 1913, John Masefield, Dauber (poem):
- He drew deep breath; a gantline swayed aloft
A lower topsail, hard with rope and leather,
Such as men's frozen fingers fight with oft
Below the Ramirez in Cape Hom weather.
- 1914, Joseph Conrad, chapter 4, in The Niger of Narkissos:
- “Now then — to the main topsail now! Tally on to that gantline. Don't stand about there!”
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References[edit]
- “gantline”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.