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CAT-HARPINS
CAT-HARPINS, a purchase of ropes employed to brace in the shrouds of the lower masts behind their yards, for the double purpose of making the shrouds more tight, and of affording room to draw the yards in more obliquely, to trim the sails for a side-wind, when they are said to be close hauled.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 79, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0303.html