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futtock Naut.|ˈfʌtək|
Also 8 foot-hook.
[prob., as already suggested in quot. 1644, a pronunciation of foot-hook (see quot. 1769).]
1. One of the middle timbers of the frame of a ship, between the floor and the top timbers.
1611Cotgr., Cour-baston..(in a ship) a crooked peece of tymber, tearmed a Knee, or Futtocke. 1644H. Manwayring Sea-mans Dict., Futtocks, this word is commonly pronounced but I thinke more properly it should be called Foote-hookes; for the Futtocks are those compassing timbers, which give the bredth and bearing to the ship, which are scarfed to the ground-timbers. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1776), Futtocks, the middle division of a ship's timbers: or those parts which are situated between the floor and the top-timbers..As the epithet hooked is..applied.. to several crooked timbers in a ship, as the breast-hooks, fore-hooks, after-hooks, &c., this term is evidently derived from the lowest part or foot of the timber and from the shape of the piece. 1789G. Keate Pelew Isl. 94 The jolly-boat was dispatched to..fetch some timbers for futtocks. 1832Marryat N. Forster iii, Several of the lower futtocks and timbers still hung together. 1846Addison Contracts ii. vii. §2 (1883) 998 The twenty-two broken futtocks of the vessel were concealed only by the ballast. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 120 Futtocks..are named according to their situation, that nearest the keel being called the first futtock; the next above, the second futtock, etc.
2. Comb., as futtock-mould, futtock-rigging, futtock-timber. Also futtock-head, -hole, -hoop (see quots.); futtock-plank, = limber-strake; futtock-plate, one of the iron plates crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly, to which the futtock-shrouds are secured; futtock-rider (see quot. 1867); futtock-shroud, one of the small shrouds which secure the lower dead-eyes and futtock-plates of top-mast rigging to a band round a lower mast; futtock-staff, -stave (see quots.).
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Futtock-head, in ship⁓building, is a name for the 5th, the 7th, and the 9th diagonals.
1846Young Naut. Dict. s.v. Futtock-shrouds, They are often formed by a continuation of the topmast rigging coming down through holes in the top, called *futtock-holes. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Futtock-holes, places through the top rim for the futtock-plates.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 931 *Futtock-hoop, a hoop encircling the mast at a point below the head, and serving for the attachment of the shackles of the futtock-shrouds.
1664E. Bushnell Compl. Shipwright 19 The..*futtock-Mould is hauled downward.
1846Young Naut. Dict., Limber-strake..sometimes called the *futtock-plank.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) M m ij, An iron band, called the *foot-hook-plate. 1841R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 106 Futtock-plates.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Eguillettes..the *futtock-riders. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Futtock-riders when a rider is lengthened by means of pieces batted or scarphed to it and each other, the first piece is termed the first futtock-rider, the next the second futtock-rider, and so on.
c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 17 What is the name of the rigging from the necklace to the top rims? *Futtock-rigging.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) M m ij, A rope called the *foot-hook-shroud. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast vi. 13 He fell from the star-board futtock shrouds. 1861H. Kingsley Ravenshoe vi, Clinging to the futtock shrouds.
1841R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 106 *Futtock-staff, a short piece of wood or iron, seized across the upper part of the rigging, to which the catharpin legs are secured.
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 166 *Futtock-stave, a short piece of rope served over with spun-yarn, to which the shrouds are confined at the catharpins.
1841R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 107 *Futtock-timbers, those timbers between the floor and navel timbers and the top timbers. |