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footropes

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 245 words | Copyright

footropes, ropes extending from the middle of a yard to its extremities on which the seamen stand when working on the yard. Footropes are supported at regular intervals by stirrups which is perhaps why they were sometimes referred to as horses.

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