buntline

From bunt +‎ line.

buntline (plural buntlines)

1. A type of revolver with an exceptionally long barrel.
2. (nautical) Any, except the outermost, of the ropes extending down to the deck with which a square sail is rolled up to the yard.
   • 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI:

     The only sail that is wholly ours is the spanker. They control absolutely--sheets, halyards, clewlines, buntlines, braces, and down-hauls--every sail on the fore and main. We control the braces on the mizzen, although they control the canvas on the mizzen.

   • 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 8:

     “Cast off the topsail sheets, clew garnets, leechlines and buntlines!” The order came thinly through the roar of the wind.

• cordage

• clewline

• buntline hitch