ratline

/rat-lin/US // ˈræt lɪn //UK // (ˈrætlɪn) //

鼠线,大鼠线,耗子线,老鼠线

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
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.

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.