futtock

American  

[fuht-uhk] / ˈfʌt ək /

noun

Nautical.

1. any of a number of timbers forming the lower, more curved portion of the frame in a wooden hull.

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futtock British  

/ ˈfʌtək /

noun

1. nautical one of the ribs in the frame of a wooden vessel

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Etymology

Origin of futtock

First recorded in 1605–15; perhaps alteration of foothook

Example Sentences

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futtock

A piece of iron used instead of a chain to confine the dead-eye of the backstay to the after-channel.—Foot-hook or futtock plates.

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

To take the pull off the tops, the shrouds are continued round to the mast as "futtock" shrouds, on the same principle as the foretopmast-stay finds its continuation in the bobstay.

From Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by James Elverson

Then I was in the futtock rigging, and a moment afterwards, standing in the top, beside the Old Man.

From The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson

Timbers in the cant-bodies, reaching from the dead-wood to the head of the second futtock, and forming a floor.

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

“You must climb out by the futtock shrouds, as every proper sailor does.”

From Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy by John B. Greene