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Definition of Gantline
1. n. A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.
Definition of Gantline
1. Noun. (nautical) A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gantline
1. a rope on a ship [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gantline
Literary usage of Gantline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea: Messages from the by Andrew Furuseth, International Seamen's Union of America (1914)
"If no signal halyards, such halyards are usually rove off first to be used in
hoisting up the gantline. If no ratlines on the lower rigging, he must "shin ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"... a gantline or rope used to lower the sail was rove through n block on the
crosstrees and sent down and bent around the sail and hauled taut, ..."
3. Yankee Swanson: Chapters from a Life at Sea by Andrew Walfrid Nelson (1913)
"I then bent the gantline on the yard by dropping the end of the ... The end was
then brought across the standing part of the gantline and belayed well on ..."
4. A manual for naval cadets by John McNeill Boyd (1857)
"In sending up the rigging, put a stout temporary seizing on each pair of shrouds,
about one third down, and instead of bending the gantline, insert the ..."
5. International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea: Messages from the by Andrew Furuseth, International Seamen's Union of America (1914)
"If no signal halyards, such halyards are usually rove off first to be used in
hoisting up the gantline. If no ratlines on the lower rigging, he must "shin ..."
6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"... a gantline or rope used to lower the sail was rove through n block on the
crosstrees and sent down and bent around the sail and hauled taut, ..."
7. Yankee Swanson: Chapters from a Life at Sea by Andrew Walfrid Nelson (1913)
"I then bent the gantline on the yard by dropping the end of the ... The end was
then brought across the standing part of the gantline and belayed well on ..."
8. A manual for naval cadets by John McNeill Boyd (1857)
"In sending up the rigging, put a stout temporary seizing on each pair of shrouds,
about one third down, and instead of bending the gantline, insert the ..."
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