Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BOLT'-ROPE
BOLT'-ROPE, n. [bolt and rope.]
A rope to which the edges of sails are sewed to strengthen them. That part of it on the perpendicular side is called the leech-rope; that at the bottom, the foot-rope; that at the top, the head-rope. – Mar. Dict.
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