NOUN
- (nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft
How To Use ratlin In A Sentence
- With this in mind, will the Syrian "ratline" become largely exterminated? Westhawk
- He managed to get underneath the crosstrees, and there he froze to the ratlines. THAT DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER
- Then, with my right, I could reach to the forrard shroud, over his right shoulder, and having got a grip, I shifted my left to a level with it; at the same moment, I was able to get my foot on to the splice of a ratline and so give myself a further lift. The Ghost Pirates
- In the fresh wind the vibration of the shrouds as fifty men ran up the ratlines could be distinctly heard.
- They learned how to keep their feet on rolling decks, how to climb ratlines in a gale, how to furl and unfurl sail, how to hurl grapnels and board ships and fire blunderbusses. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
- Then, reaching as high as I could into one of the middle shrouds, and grabbing a ratline, I began to climb. STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
- Her foot caught in a ratline, jerking her to a nasty halt. LEVIATHAN
- We are all -- wife, bratling, and self, remarkably well. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
- A sailor, in the main rigging, carried away a ratline in both hands, fell head-downward, and was clutched by an ankle and saved head-downward by a comrade, as the schooner cracked and shuddered, uplifted on the port side, and was flung down on her starboard side till the ocean poured level over her rail. CHAPTER XV
- If I were to rule in your favor, would Martha Fisher be the next bratling in a long and everlasting line of infant supermen applying to this and that and the other Court to have their legal majority ruled, each of them pointing to your case as having established precedence? The Fourth R