girt-linen.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgirt-ˌline.

Nautical.

(See quots.) Cf. gantline n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope for hoisting rigging

girt-line1769

forerunner1805

gantline1840

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Girt-line, a rope passing through a single block, on the head of the lower masts, to hoist up the rigging thereof... The girt-line is therefore the first rope employed to rig a ship.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast viii. 18 A long piece of rope..is taken up to the mast-head from which the stay leads, and rove through a block for a girt-line, or, as the sailors usually call it, a gant-line.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xviii. 50 Some got girt-lines up for riding down the stays and backstays.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	girt-line
释义	girt-linen. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgirt-ˌline. Nautical. (See quots.) Cf. gantline n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope for hoisting rigging girt-line1769 forerunner1805 gantline1840 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Girt-line, a rope passing through a single block, on the head of the lower masts, to hoist up the rigging thereof... The girt-line is therefore the first rope employed to rig a ship. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast viii. 18 A long piece of rope..is taken up to the mast-head from which the stay leads, and rove through a block for a girt-line, or, as the sailors usually call it, a gant-line. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xviii. 50 Some got girt-lines up for riding down the stays and backstays. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). > as lemmas girt-line girt-line n. ΚΠ 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. vi. v. 67/1 To give the Bounds, or Girt Line, of this Parish, I shall begin at Cecill-street. extracted from girtn. < n.1769 as lemmas
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