BUNT-LINES are small lines made fast to the bottom of the sails, in the middle part of the bolt-robe, to a cringle, and so are reeved through a small block, seized to the yard. Their use is to trice up the bunt of the sail, for the better furling it up.
BUNT-LINES
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