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  buntline

  noun

  one of the ropes attached to the foot of a square sail to haul it up to the yard for furling.
• Buntline
  Buntline

  noun

  Ned, 1823–86, pen name of Edward Zane Carroll Judson.

buntline

¹ American  

[buhnt-lin, -lahyn] / ˈbʌnt lɪn, -ˌlaɪn /

noun

Nautical.

1. one of the ropes attached to the foot of a square sail to haul it up to the yard for furling.

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Buntline ² American  

[buhnt-lin, -lahyn] / ˈbʌnt lɪn, -ˌlaɪn /

noun

1. Ned, 1823–86, pen name of Edward Zane Carroll Judson.

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buntline British  

/ ˈbʌntlɪn, -ˌlaɪn /

noun

1. nautical one of several lines fastened to the foot of a square sail for hauling it up to the yard when furling

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Etymology

Origin of buntline

First recorded in 1620–30; bunt ² + line ¹

Example Sentences

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I told Howe not to carry the end of the buntline too far.

From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Oliver Optic

All this time, I was busily working, unreeving the port buntline.

From The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson

Each left a hook in the knot of the inner buntline, as he went out, and dropped the ball of marline on deck.

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper

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 Oliver Optic

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 Sir Edward Belcher

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

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

For young men, journalist E. Z. C. Judson used the pen name Ned Buntline to churn out dozens of thrillers about Indian fighting, New York gangs, slum life, and nautical adventures.

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, bunt′līn, n. a rope passing from the foot-rope of a square sail, led up to the masthead and thence on deck, to help in hauling the sail up to the yard.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various