Girtline

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  • n. A gantline.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A gantline.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Nautical, a whip-purchase, consisting of a rope passing through a block on the head of a mast, employed to raise the rigging of a ship for the first time. Also called gant-line.
  • n. A boundary or bounding line.
    • Word Usage
    "Tripolitans to cut away their masts, throw overboard all their cannon, cutlasses, pistols, and other arms; cut their sails to pieces; throw all ammunition into the sea, and, to use a nautical expression, "strip the ship to a girtline.""
    Cross Reference
    hammock girt-lines   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gantline   
     
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