slablinen.
/ˈslablʌɪn/ Nautical.
(See quots. 1769, 1846.) Also attributive.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes for furling sails
wyning1295
brailsa1450
clew-garnet1626
furling-line1626
buntline1627
clew-line1627
slabline1647
peak-brail1711
throat brail1769
buntline-span1882
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 46 When Kings are haleing up their top-gallant, Subjects lay hold on their slablines.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Slab-line, a small cord passing up behind a ship's main-sail or fore-sail... It is used to truss up the sail.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 285 Slab~line, a rope used to haul up the slack of a course, in order to prevent it from shaking, or being split in the act of hauling up the sail.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 25 The quarter slabline block on the jackstay.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 47 The inner slabline is..brought abaft the sail.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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