buntline

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bunt=line

CIDE DICTIONARY

buntlinen. [2d bunt + line.].
     One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.  Totten.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

buntline, n. a line for confining the bunt (see BUNT(1)) when furling a sail.


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