It was admirably thrown, but caught only by a ratlin. From Wordnik.com. [Great Pirate Stories] Reference
Mark now ascended the crater-wall with a pick on his shoulder, and a part of a coil of ratlin-stuff around his neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Crater] Reference
"Hilloa!" exclaimed the skipper with a sudden start, next morning, as he saw Eric's recumbent figure on the ratlin stuff, "who be this young varmint?". From Wordnik.com. [Eric, or Little by Little] Reference
I saw this, and was about to jump into the rigging to try what I could do to clear it, when Neb again went ahead of me, and cut the ratlin with his knife. From Wordnik.com. [Great Pirate Stories] Reference
From the bulwarks rose on all sides, to the ends of the yards, a huge net made of ratlin stuff, boiled in pitch until it would turn the edge of a cutlass, and further strengthened by nail-rods and small chains. From Wordnik.com. [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
From my earliest days to the present time I have been gradually climbing up the ladder towards a comfortable berth on the top; and if a ratlin has given way beneath my feet, I always have had a firm hold above my head. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler] Reference
He saw that I was accustomed to act for myself, young as I was, and that I should have less chance of slipping off the ladder, if I mounted each ratlin by myself; and he considered that as I was of somewhat a poetical temperament, if my mind received a hot bed forcing at too early an age, I should be unfitted to struggle on in this every-day working world. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler] Reference
Wi 'ratlin' an 'wi' thumpin '!. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
When the captain was passive in the hands of his foe, the cockswain produced sundry pieces of sennit, marline, and ratlin-stuff, from his pockets, which appeared to contain as great a variety of small cordage as a boatswain's storeroom, and proceeded to lash the arms of the conquered soldier to the posts of his bed, with a coolness that had not been disturbed since the commencement of hostilities, a silence that seemed inflexible, and a dexterity that none but a seaman could equal. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilot] Reference
She keeps up a ratlin 'talkin' pace. From Wordnik.com. [Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles] Reference
There's great vartue in ratlin stuff, among boys. From Wordnik.com. [Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"] Reference
Now Clinkumbell, wi 'ratlin tow. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
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