ratline 的定义
Nautical.
- any of the small ropes or lines that traverse the shrouds horizontally and serve as steps for going aloft.
- Also ratline stuff . three-stranded, right-laid, tarred hemp stuff of from 6 to 24 threads, used for ratlines, lashings, etc.
更多ratline例句
- In walking along her gun-deck, he accidentally ran against a ratline, by which one of her starboard guns was discharged.
- A piece of small ratline was fixed to the slings, with the handlead made fast to it so that it would sink.
- A musket-ball carried away a ratline above his head, just as he reached forward.
- A sailor came slipping down the ratline one night, as though something had happened, and the sailors cried, "What's the matter?"
- You will soon have furled your last sail, and run up the last ratline, and weathered the last gale, and made the last voyage.