footrope

 [foot-rohp]  

foot·rope

   [foot-rohp]
noun Nautical.
1.
the portion of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewn.
2.
a rope suspended a few feet beneath a yard, bowsprit, jib boom, or spanker boom to give a footing for a person handling sails.
Origin:
1765–75; foot + rope
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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footrope (ˈfʊtˌrəʊp)
 
—n
1.  the part of a boltrope to which the foot of a sail is stitched
2.  a rope fixed so as to hang below a yard to serve as a foothold

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