Formerly the middle third was parcelled over the service, below the wake of the futtock staff.
Each pair of shrouds should be served below the futtock staves.
You must climb out by the futtock shrouds, as every proper sailor does.
Before you could say `Jack Robinson' I had quickly sprung into the lee rigging; and, clambering up the ratlines and then outward by the futtock shrouds, I gained the top long ere half the rest had started.
We have had a merciful deliverance," I heard old Futtockremark to the gunner a short time afterwards.
Topmast-shrouds extend from the top-mast head to the edges of the tops, and are set up to the futtock dead-eyes.
Formerly used; extending from the weather-futtock staves to the opposite lee-channels.
Clear spaces between the riders, in those vessels which have floor and futtock riders.
Greenhorns generally scramble through those instead of going over the futtock shrouds.
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.
I redoubled my efforts, and, racing over the futtock shrouds, I gained the top, where I threw myself down, panting and almost exhausted.
Slowly he climbed till, urged on by the shouts of the fiendish crew, he reached the futtock shrouds.
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.
On boring into the secondfuttock timbers from the main hold, close under the beams of the lower deck on the larbord side, we find one sound and two rotten; and on the other side, one sound and one rotten.
On boring into one of the second futtock timbers in the cockpit, on each side, we find it to be sound on the starbord, but on the other side rotten: the inside plank on both sides is rotten.
He reached the futtock rigging, and stopped to expectorate.
Higher, I saw the Second Mate in the futtock rigging, holding his light up over the edge of the top.
Then I was in the futtock rigging, and a moment afterwards, standing in the top, beside the Old Man.
On the port side, and more directly above me, the Skipper's feet were just stepping out of the futtock shrouds.
The first man to wind'ard had reached the futtock shrouds; his head was above the top, and he was taking a preliminary look, before venturing higher.
His long legs had enabled him to take two ratlines at a time, and he saved himself the trouble of getting over the futtock shrouds by very easily making two steps from the mainshrouds to the mainyard, and from the mainyard to the maintop.
It wasn't pleasant going along the futtock shrouds, and still less getting round them outside into the top, for as the ship rolled it felt as if the mast was coming right down on the top of me.
One is by going along some ropes, called thefuttock shrouds, when one hangs very much as a fly does crawling along the ceiling.
If I had been born you, I'd have been as happy as a dead bird swabbing the main deck and shinning up the futtock shrouds and hauling in the tops'ls.
What was Pall Mall in comparison with the forecastle or the futtock shrouds of the Margaret Carey?
Perhaps this was more Henry Harper's fancy than anything else; but at least it enabled him to gather the strength to move from his perch and slide down the futtock shrouds to the deck.
He untied the fastenings, and, climbing to the futtock shrouds, passed the rope once more around his body several times and tied the end to the rigging.
Smokeless powder was unknown in those days, and, as the vapor enfolded the ships, Farragut kept stepping up the rigging almost unconsciously until he was so high that he was clinging to the futtock shrouds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "futtock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: companion; parts; ship
