gantline

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gantline (plural gantlines)

  1. (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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