jack rope

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noun Nautical.

a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.

a line that is rove through grommets on the reef band of a square sail, and to which lanyards from the jackstay on the yard are toggled to reef the sail.

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How to use jack rope in a sentence

Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.
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Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland (Jack London, Taft) You can thank Johnny Heinold for your favorite Jack London book.
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But not even the threat of death can suppress the urge to live vicariously through Jack Dawson and James Bond.
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She tugged on the black rope that wrapped around his thighs and torso, her leather gloves creaking with each adjustment.
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“I like decorating my slaves,” she said, referencing the rope, her thin, crimson-coated lips peeling off her front teeth.
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Strathland would bundle me out in ten minutes if anything happened to Jack.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
It occurred to him then, for the first time, that a third resource was open—he might cut the rope, and let the kite go free!
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
She is immensely rich, one of the ablest political women in London, and Jack is desperately in love with her.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
How on earth can Jack find time to think about women with the immense amount of work he gets through?
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Once the rope got tangled around Squinty's foot, and he jumped over it to get free.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum