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Ratlines

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Rat´lines    (răt´lĭnz)
n. pl.1.(Naut.) The small transverse ropes attached to the shrouds and forming the steps of a rope ladder.
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The crew, perched in the ratlines, examined the horizon which contracted and darkened by degrees.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
shouted the doctor in his sonorous, ringing voice, as he flung out the ladder, the lowest ratlines of which tossed up the dust of the road.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
And Simon Nishikanta tore himself away from his everlasting painting of all colour-delicacies of sea and sky such as are painted by seminary maidens, to be helped and hoisted up the ratlines of the mizzen rigging, the huge bulk of him, by two grinning, slim-waisted sailors, until they lashed him squarely on the crosstrees and left him to stare with eyes of golden desire, across the sun-washed sea through the finest pair of unredeemed binoculars that had ever been pledged in his pawnshops.
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
 
 
 
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