Usage examples (27)

• One is by going along some ropes, called the futtock shrouds, when one hangs very much as a fly does crawling along the ceiling.
• These, like the channels for the lower rigging, are mere projections or out-riggers; the true point of support for the topmast rigging is the lower shrouds, the connection...
• "You must climb out by the futtock shrouds, as every proper sailor does."
• Some boats only had a single futtock lying on one side of the frame, whereas others had two futtocks, one on each side.