futtockn.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cour-baston,..(in a ship) a crooked peece of tymber, tearmed a Knee, or Futtocke.

1644 H. Mainwaring 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.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. S4 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.

1788 G. Keate Acct. Pelew Islands ix. 94 The jolly-boat was dispatched to..fetch some timbers for futtocks.

1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. iii. 39 Several of the lower futtocks and timbers still hung together.

1846 C. G. Addison Treat. Law Contracts (1883) ii. vii. §2 998 The twenty-two broken futtocks of the vessel were concealed only by the ballast.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 120 Futtocks..are named according to their situation, that nearest the keel being called the first futtock; the next above, the second futtock, etc.

1664 E. Bushnell Compl. Ship-wright 19 The..futtock-Mould is hauled downward.

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 17 What is the name of the rigging from the necklace to the top rims? Futtock-rigging.

1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 107 Futtock-timbers, those timbers between the floor and navel timbers and the top timbers.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Futtock-head, in ship~building, is a name for the 5th, the 7th, and the 9th diagonals.

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. at Futtock-shrouds They are often formed by a continuation of the topmast rigging coming down through holes in the top, called futtock-holes.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Futtock-holes, places through the top rim for the futtock-plates.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 931/2 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.

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. at Limber-strake Sometimes called the futtock-plank.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Shrouds An iron band, called the foot-hook-plate.

1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 106 Futtock-plates.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Eguillettes, the futtock-riders.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher 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.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Shrouds A rope called the foot-hook shroud.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast vi. 13 He fell from the star-board futtock shrouds.

1861 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe vi Clinging to the futtock shrouds.

1841 R. 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.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 166 Futtock-stave, a short piece of rope served over with spun-yarn, to which the shrouds are confined at the catharpins.