Crossword-Solution: FOOTROPE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Footrope | n. | The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse. |
| Footrope | n. | That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “FOOTROPE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| part of a boltrope to which the foot of a sail is stitched | 1 answer |
| Sail attachment | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with FOOTROPE (5)
Then, making up my bunt and putting into it the slack of the clews, the leech and footrope and the body of the sail, I hauled it well up on the yard, smoothed the skin, brought it down abaft, and made fast the bunt-gasket round the mast.
Kampke was blown overboard off the footrope that ran under the yard, as he stood there hauling in on the sail.
But to hear is of course to obey; and while some of our messmates spring to the downhaul of the jib, and rattle it down the stay, we and another man get out along the bowsprit, and with our feet resting on the slippery, knotted footrope to windward, we clutch hold of the jib, which is hanging down and lashing over to leeward.
The enraged men caught him just outside the door, slammed in his face by Macklin, and I had one glimpse of him as I scrambled in along the footrope.
Here, still faint and dizzy, he hung with the footrope jammed against his heel, as he felt for the gasket that held the canvas to the yard.