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jack-line
[f. Jack n.1, in various senses: cf. jack-chain.]
A kind of thin rope or line used for various purposes: see quots.
1615E. S. Brit. Buss in Arb. Garner III. 642 Every string must be fifty fathom long, and about the bigness of a jack-line. 1665J. Wilson Projectors i. Dram. Wks. (1874) 227, I shall be an alderman,..I think a brass jack⁓line would hang as well o' my shoulders as on another man's. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 337 A round wooden box which receives a Jack-line, that goes also through another box which turnes a second spindle above in the Chimney. 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 64 Jack-line is made of bar hemp, and has 9 threads, 3 in a strand. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 514 Sash and jack-lines, made from Indian spun hemp. 1858Kipping Sails & Sail-making 57 Through these eyes a small-sized rope is reeved, and this is called the Jack-line. |