How To Use futtock shroud In A Sentence
- These, like the channels for the lower rigging, are mere projections or out-riggers; the true point of support for the topmast rigging is the lower shrouds, the connection being made by what are called futtock shrouds and catharpins. The Lieutenant and Commander
- Yet, excepting the watch, he kept every man so busy as might be, some bringing weed to keep up a fire which he had lit near the boat; one to help him turn and hold the batten upon which he laboured; and two he sent across to the wreck of the mast, to detach one of the futtock shrouds, which (as is most rare) were made of iron rods. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
- He ignored them and clambered over the side of the ship, descending by the futtock shrouds, hurling curses while the cat continued to beleaguer his head and shoulders. City of Glory
- One is by going along some ropes, called the futtock shrouds, when one hangs very much as a fly does crawling along the ceiling. My First Cruise and Other stories