One is by going along some ropes, called the futtock shrouds, when one hangs very much as a fly does crawling along the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [My First Cruise and Other stories] Reference
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 being made by what are called futtock shrouds and catharpins. From Wordnik.com. [The Lieutenant and Commander]
"You must climb out by the futtock shrouds, as every proper sailor does.". From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
Some boats only had a single futtock lying on one side of the frame, whereas others had two futtocks, one on each side. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Rare Canal Boats Found] Reference
He reached the futtock shrouds and, without thinking, hurled himself upward and outward, the quickest way to the maintop. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
Similarly, some boats utilized only nails to join the futtock to the frame, while others used combinations of bolts and nails. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Rare Canal Boats Found] Reference
"They can sail to China so long as we catch them, " Chase said, then collapsed his telescope and disappeared down the futtock shrouds. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
He climbed the lower ratlines which were easy for they leaned like a ladder against the mast, but then he came to the place where the futtock shrouds went out and backward above his head. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
He reached the futtock rigging, and stopped to expectorate. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Pirates: Chapter 3] Reference
"Did your honour ever see an elephant go up the futtock-shrouds?". From Wordnik.com. [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference
The sea yielded futtock shrouds, euphroes, baggywrinkles, and paravane skegs. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4] Reference
Then I was in the futtock rigging, and a moment afterwards, standing in the top, beside the Old Man. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Pirates: Chapter 11] Reference
The latter must not be abandoned, and are without masts, for only their futtock-timbers can be of use. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
On the port side, and more directly above me, the Skipper's feet were just stepping out of the futtock shrouds. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Pirates: Chapter 11] Reference
Looking up, I saw him with his back almost horizontal above me, going along the futtock shrouds to get into the top. From Wordnik.com. [Paddy Finn] Reference
A few of us were compelled to go as high as the futtock-shrouds to secure the sails, but higher it was impossible to get. From Wordnik.com. [Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale] Reference
The first man to wind'ard had reached the futtock shrouds; his head was above the top, and he was taking a preliminary look, before venturing higher. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Pirates: Chapter 3] Reference
He fell from the starboard futtock shrouds, and not knowing how to swim, and being heavily dressed, with all those things round his neck, he probably sank immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
He fell from the starboard futtock shrouds, and, not knowing how to swim, and being heavily dressed, with all those things round his neck, he probably sank immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
Finch was hanging on uncomfortably, back downwards, in the act of transferring himself from the futtock shrouds to the top, and each roll threatened to shake him loose. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Midshipman Easy]
On boring into one of the second futtock timbers in the cockpit, on each side, we find it to be sound on the starbord, but on the other side rotten: the inside plank on both sides is rotten. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2] Reference
It wasn't pleasant going along the futtock shrouds, and still less getting round them outside into the top, for as the ship rolled it felt as if the mast was coming right down on the top of me. From Wordnik.com. [My First Cruise and Other stories] Reference
I had been sitting on the mast with my back against the futtock-shrouds; I now rose up with difficulty, for I was sorely bruised, and stood upon the mast clear from the water, to look around me. From Wordnik.com. [Percival Keene] Reference
The skipper was then hanging as he best could to the mizen rigging; Lewis had his arms tightly locked on the port side round the futtock shrouds, and was cowering to get clear of the scourging wind. From Wordnik.com. [A Dream of the North Sea] Reference
Hornblower dived over the barricade and gripped the futtock shrouds; not for him was the easy descent through the lubber's hole, not when the first lieutenant might see him and reprimand him for unseamanlike behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Midshipman Easy]
On the port side, and more directly above me, the Skipper’s feet were just stepping out of the futtock shrouds. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Pirates] Reference
The first man to wind’ard had reached the futtock shrouds; his head was above the top, and he was taking a preliminary look, before venturing higher. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Pirates] Reference
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