See buntlines and toggle.
·noun One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of th...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The lining sewed up the fore-part of the sail in the direction of the buntline to prevent that rope ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
An eye worked into the bolt-rope of a sail, to receive a buntline. This is only in top-gallant sails...
Short pieces of rope with a thimble in one end, the other whipped; the buntlines are rove through th...