, or foot-hook shrouds.
Are short pieces of rope or chain which secure the lower dead-eyes and futtock-plates of top-mast rigging to a band round a lower mast.
The crypt at St. Paul's. See Jesus' Chapel, Steeple. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
The lower and upper standing-rigging. They are always divided into pairs or couples; that is to say,...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound r...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Formerly used; extending from the weather-futtock staves to the opposite lee-channels. ...
Strong ropes or chains leading from nearly the outer end of the bowsprit to the luff of the bow, giv...
See shrouds. ...
Synonymous with futtock; a word in use, but not warranted. ...
In ship-building, is a name for the 5th, the 7th, and the 9th diagonals, the intervening bevellings ...
Places through the top-rim for the futtock-plates. ...
The first plank of the ceiling next the kelson; the limber-strake. ...
Iron plates with dead-eyes, crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly. The dead-eyes of the ...
When a rider is lengthened by means of pieces batted or scarphed to it and each other, the first pie...
A short piece of wood or iron, seized across the upper part of the shrouds at equal distances, to wh...
See futtocks. ...
See futtock-shrouds ...