futtock

[fuht-uhk]

noun

Nautical.

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

futtock

/ ˈfʌtək /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of futtock¹

First recorded in 1605–15; perhaps alteration of foothook

Word History and Origins

Origin of futtock¹

C13: perhaps variant of foothook

Example Sentences

Something old, something new, something borrowed – and, naturally, something emblazoned with the bright red slogan “buttock futtock”.

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For a brief space his body hung suspended on the inside of the futtock shrouds, then it slowly over-balanced and crashed with a heavy thud across a gun carriage on the deck below.

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Greenhorns generally scramble through those instead of going over the futtock shrouds.

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However, I stuck to it, followed Drake over the futtock shrouds, where for a space I felt like a fly on a ceiling, and at length gained the foretop.

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Slowly he climbed till, urged on by the shouts of the fiendish crew, he reached the futtock shrouds.

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