rumbowline

English

Noun

rumbowline (usually uncountable, plural rumbowlines)

1. Alternative form of rombowline
   • 1900 June 7, W. H. Helm, “Green Oceans: Chapter XIII.—The Queer Clipper.”, in The Morning Post, number 39,941, London, page 2:

     Her stern was where her stem should be, her yards set abaft the masts, her square sails gybing out before the wind, so that the tackle and rigging, poles, transoms, and rumbowlines appeared to have been lifted together and reversed in their relation to the hull.

   • 2002, J. E. Fender, The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost: Being an Account of the Life and Times of Geoffrey Frost, Mariner, of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, […], Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 54:

     Frost shivered inside his sodden wrap of rumbowline canvas, judged the need to reef main courses, and calculated back to the onset of the squall, disbelieving that less than five minutes earlier the random surge of an unexpectedly long swell had lifted Salmon’s stern into the path of an enemy cannon ball.

References

• “rumbowline”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.