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GIRT-LINE
GIRT-LINE, (cartahu, Fr.) a rope passing through a single block, on the head of the lower masts, to hoist up the rigging thereof; as also the persons employed to place the rigging and cross-trees upon the mast-heads. The girt-line is therefore the first rope employed to rig a ship, and by means of this all the rest are drawn up and fixed; after which it is removed till the ship is to be unrigged.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 139, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0620.html