buntline

¹ American  

[buhnt-lin, -lahyn] / ˈbʌnt lɪn, -ˌlaɪn /

noun

Nautical.

1. one of the ropes attached to the foot of a square sail to haul it up to the yard for furling.

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Buntline ² American  

[buhnt-lin, -lahyn] / ˈbʌnt lɪn, -ˌlaɪn /

noun

1. Ned, 1823–86, pen name of Edward Zane Carroll Judson.

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buntline British  

/ -ˌlaɪn, ˈbʌntlɪn /

noun

1. nautical one of several lines fastened to the foot of a square sail for hauling it up to the yard when furling

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Etymology

Origin of buntline

First recorded in 1620–30; bunt ² + line ¹

Example Sentences

An eye worked into the bolt-rope of a sail, to receive a buntline.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Each left a hook in the knot of the inner buntline, as he went out, and dropped the ball of marline on deck.

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by Cooper, James Fenimore

Peaks, on the main topmast-stay, caught Howe in the very act of passing the gasket through the bight of the buntline.

From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Optic, Oliver

The reef-bands, leech and top linings, buntline cloths, and other applied pieces, to prevent the chafing of the sails.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

He would walk along the deck and jerk each buntline in passing—and then order lads aloft to overhaul and stop the lines again.

From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman