traveller

The Sailor's Word-Book

One or more iron thimbles with a rope spliced round them, sometimes forming a kind of tail, but more generally a species of grummet.

♦ Traveller of boat's masts, jib-boom, &c. An iron ring fitted so as to slip up and down a spar, to run in and out on a boom or gaff, for the purpose of extending or drawing in the outer corner or tack of the sail.

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