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The terms applicable to the parts of a sail comprise:—Seaming the cloths together; cutting the gores; tabling and sewing on the reef, belly, lining, and buntline bands, roping, and marling on the clues and foot-rope.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
An eye worked into the bolt-rope of a sail, to receive a buntline.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
The reef-bands, leech and top linings, buntline cloths, and other applied pieces, to prevent the chafing of the sails.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
He would walk along the deck and jerk each buntline in passing—and then order lads aloft to overhaul and stop the lines again.
From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman
Bitts tried to cry out; but when he did so, Phillips ordered the hands at the buntline to haul taut.
From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Optic, Oliver
Buntline fictionalized the true story of Mary Rogers, a noted beauty and "respectable" girl from Connecticut found dead near the Hudson River in 1841.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2022
Sometimes these characters are killed by an abortionist – which is exactly what happens in a novel written by one of the 19th century's most popular sensationalist writers, Ned Buntline.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2022
Characteristically, perhaps, Buntline was one of the main organizers of the Astor Place Riot.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
His last ride at the home of jump racing will be at 17:15 GMT on Ned Buntline in the race named after him.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2015
Buntline said, 'You must not recite cues; they are for you to speak from—the last words of the persons who speak before you.'
From Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood by Ingraham, Prentiss
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