Hook or clasp the sheets to the clews, reeve the clewlines and reef-tackles, toggle the bowlines, clinch or toggle the buntlines to the foot of the sail, and stop the head to the buntlines.
Loose the sail and overhaul the buntlines and leechlines.
Hoist on the buntlines and haul out on the reef-tackles, bringing the sail to the yard, and then pass the head-earings and make fast the robands as for a course.
The situation of a course when the buntlines and lee clew are hauled up, and the weather clew down.
Haul up the buntlines and steady the yard by the braces.
One with two legs, and a thimble to each, is often made fast to the topsail tye, for the buntlines to reeve through.
If there are buntlines and a jigger, the bunt may be triced well up, by bending the jigger to the bight of a buntline, and having it hauled taut on deck.
If the sail is to be sent up by the buntlines, lay the sail on the deck and forward of the mast, overhaul the buntlines down forward of the yard, on each side of the topmast stay and on the same side of the lower stay.
Haul the buntlines up after the weather clew, and steady the yard by the braces.
Reeve thebuntlines through the thimbles of the first reef-band forward, if they are made to go so, and toggle their ends to the foot of the sail, or carry them through the eyelet-holes and clinch them to their own parts.
The mizzen topsail hung in the buntlines until everything was furled forward.
The splitting crojick, not yet gone to rags, Thundered below, beating till something gave, Bellying between its buntlines into bags.
Overhaul thembuntlines an' clewlines," he bawled to an imaginary crew.
Look at them courses hangin' in the buntlines an' the yards braced a-box!
Leggo them buntlines an' clewlines, my hearties, an' haul home that sheet.
The "sheet" pulls the sail out to its full extent down to the yard below, the clewlines and buntlines bring it up under the yard for furling.
A glance at the picture will show the clew-garnets and clewlines coming down to the corners and the buntlines coming straight down the sails.
A Running or Inside Clinch+ is the foregoing, formed by the end of a rope on its own standing part, and is often used for securing buntlines to the foot of a sail (Fig.
It is used for various purposes; one is often made fast to the topsail-tye, for the buntlines to reeve through, to confine them to the centre of the yard.
In the merchant service all buntlines are generally passed through an eyelet-hole in the sail, and clinched round its own part.
The situation of a course when the buntlines and lee-clue are hauled up, and the weather-clue down.
Ropes contrived to keep the sails from blowing away when they are clued up, being rove before the sails like the buntlines so as to disarm the gale, in contradistinction to clue-lines, &c.
Also, those nailed on the topsail-yards of some merchantmen, to lead the buntlines through.
Short pieces of rope with a thimble in one end, the other whipped; the buntlines are rove through these thimbles: they are attached to the tie-blocks to keep the sail in the bunt when hauled up.
Clewlines, clew-garnets, leachlines, andbuntlines were in a snarl.
If I am not very much mistaken, I saw Howe, on the main-topsail yard, tangling up the buntlines and sheets.
By reference to the drawing it will be seen that it is not necessary to have clewgarnets or buntlines in reefing.
The buntlinesare two ropes attached to cringles, or eyes, in the bottom of the sail, which are used for hauling up the middle, or bunt, of the topsail.
The reef tackles were hauled out, and the buntlines hauled up to bring the sail where it could be easily handled.
This important sail was got on the vessel, by bending the buntlines and leachlines to its head, and by hauling out the weather-head-cringle by means of the reef tackle.
As this, however, would be nearly all aftersail, the captain determined to make an effort to overhaul the buntlines and leachlines of the foresail, at the same time that men were sent aloft after the ends of the halyards.
For the benefit of those who know what a buntline on a sail is, I may remark that besides the usual topsail buntlines we had six extra buntlines round the whole sail, so that when it was clewed up it was, so to speak, made fast.
Didn't Jones have to show him how the royalbuntlines led?
The skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlinesbagged the canvas.
Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buntlines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
