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Definition of Buntline
1. n. One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.
Definition of Buntline
1. Noun. A type of revolver with an exceptionally long barrel. ¹
2. Noun. (nautical) Any, except the outermost, of the ropes extending down to the deck with which a square sail is rolled up to the yard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Buntline
1. a rope used to haul up a sail [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buntline
Literary usage of Buntline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill," Colonel William F. Cody by Buffalo Bill, William Lightfoot Visscher (1917)
"CURING the summer and fall of 1872,1 received numerous letters from Ned buntline,
urging me , to come East and go upon the stage to represent my own ..."
2. A History of the Adirondacks by Alfred Lee Donaldson (1921)
"CHAPTER XXXVIII "NED buntline" THIS was the pen-name of Edward Zane Carroll
Judson, who swaggered into the lime-light of popularity as a swash-buckling ..."
3. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"An eye worked into the bolt-rope of a sail, to receive a buntline. This is only
in top-gallant sails, and is seldom used now. In the merchant service all ..."
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