bolt-rope

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 419 words | Copyright

bolt-rope, the name given to the rope which was sewn around the edges of a sail to keep it from fraying. While the whole rope was known as the bolt-rope, it was subdivided in name according to the side of the sail on which it was sewn, as luff-rope, footrope, etc. Bolt-ropes were always placed slightly to the left of centre of the edge on which they were sewn to enable seamen to orient the sail by feel in the dark.

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