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TOP-ROPE
TOP-ROPE, (guinderesse Fr.) a rope employed to fway-up a top-mast or top-gallant-mast in order to fix it in its place, or to lower it in tempestuous weather, or when it is no longer necessary. The rope used on this occalion for the top-masts is, on account of their great weight, furnished with an assemblage of pullies, at its lower end, called the top-tackle, to hoist or lower the mast with greater facility. The whole of this is particularly explained in the article MAST, and the plate therein referred to.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 294, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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