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noun - (nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship

noun - one of the ropes forming the steps of a rope ladder on a ship

RATLINES - Ratlines, pro noun ced "rattlin's", are lengths of thin line tied between the shrouds of a sailing ship to form a ladder. Found on all square rigged sh...

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Rungs on a ship's rope ladder
Sailor climbs ropes — these?
Rigging improvised latrines

Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles
Aug 14 2017 USA Today
Jul 19 2010 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword
May 27 2009 The Telegraph - Toughie

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Plural form of ratline.
a series of small rope lines fastened across a sailing ship's shrouds like the rungs of a ladder, used for climbing the rigging.

Ratlines description
Ratlines, pronounced "rattlin's", are lengths of thin line tied between the shrouds of a sailing ship to form a ladder. Found on all square rigged ships, whose crews must go aloft to stow the square sails, they also appear on larger fore-and-aft rigged vessels to aid in repairs aloft or conduct a lookout from above. * Lower courses in a ratline are often made of slats of wood (battens) for support where the distance between shrouds is greatest. These wooden boards are called rat-boards. In some instances holes in these slats guide and organise low-tension lines between the deck and the rig.* Although the name clove hitch is given by Falconer in his Dictionary of 1769, the knot is much older, having been tied in ratlines at least as early as the first quarter of the sixteenth century. This is shown in early sculpture and paintings.

Ratlines description

Ratlines, pronounced "rattlin's", are lengths of thin line tied between the shrouds of a sailing ship to form a ladder. Found on all square rigged ships, whose crews must go aloft to stow the square sails, they also appear on larger fore-and-aft rigged vessels to aid in repairs aloft or conduct a lookout from above.
* Lower courses in a ratline are often made of slats of wood (battens) for support where the distance between shrouds is greatest. These wooden boards are called rat-boards. In some instances holes in these slats guide and organise low-tension lines between the deck and the rig.* Although the name clove hitch is given by Falconer in his Dictionary of 1769, the knot is much older, having been tied in ratlines at least as early as the first quarter of the sixteenth century. This is shown in early sculpture and paintings.

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