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Definition of Ridge rope
1. Noun. Either of a pair of lifelines running alongside the bowsprit of a ship.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ridge Rope
Literary usage of Ridge rope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete handbook for the Hospital Corps of the U.S. Army and Navy and by Charles Field Mason (1906)
"The loop of the ridge-rope is slipped over the pin of one of the uprights and
... The three short rope supports are then hooked over the ridge-rope through ..."
2. Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp (1884)
"It is fitted as follows : the roof is a sheet of mackintosh 6ft. long by 4ft.
wide; along the centre of this on the inside runs a ridge rope, the fore end ..."
3. Naval Hygiene by James Duncan Gatewood (1909)
"The awning or roof of the tent is then stopped out to the ridge rope, ...
Side curtains of less heavy white canvas are stopped to the ridge rope when they ..."
4. The Sportsman's Workshop by Warren Hastings Miller (1921)
"The bed poles are lashed to the shear legs about a foot above the ground, and
the tarp is spread over the ridge rope, pegged down flat to windward, ..."
5. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1859)
"Two stout poles, outside the tent, ¡ire four and a half or five feet high, and
are connected with a ridge rope eight feet long, ..."
6. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1821)
"The ridge rope of the tent was fixed to the mizen-mast? Yes. What was the tent
made of? Malta cotton, I believe. It was the ship's lent? ..."
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