单词	ratlines
释义	ratlines /ˈratlɪnz / plural noun A series of small rope lines fastened across a sailing ship’s shrouds like the rungs of a ladder, used for climbing the rigging: I scrambled back down the ratlines... The product of a seafaring family, Seal is at home among the rigging, the ratlines, the shrouds and spars of his leading lady. Pamela watched the men climbing the ratlines, standing on the yards, or in the footropes. In the fresh wind the vibration of the shrouds as fifty men ran up the ratlines could be distinctly heard. Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin.
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