footrope

Because the footrope provides a rather narrow area to stand on, it can cause sore feet after a while.

The configuration of the footrope varies based on the expected bottom shape.

Meanwhile, the footrope swayed; everything always seemed to move in the rigging.

Because the yard must be free to move, this footrope is rather loose and hence unstable.

The very lightest bridges of this type consist of a single footrope and nothing more.

The sailors will now edge out along the footrope until they are spread evenly along the yard.

On boarding the ship Hornblower and his men are frustrated by the absence of a footrope along the yardarm.

The person working on the end of the yardarm has a separate footrope known as the flemish horse.

The more uneven the bottom, the more robust the footrope configuration must be to prevent net damage.

Fixed to the headline of the net, the footrope can usually be seen which gives an indication of the net performance.

A Flemish horse is a footrope on a square rigged sailing ship that is found at the extreme outer end of the yard.

More commonly, the footrope is accompanied by one or two handrail ropes, connected at intervals by vertical side ropes.

Each yard on a square rigged sailing ship is equipped with a footrope for sailors to stand on while setting or stowing the sails.

Even shuffling out along the yard on the looped footrope to undo the sail-lashings wasn't too bad, since the ship wasn't heeling.

The inner parts of the footrope are held up towards the yard by vertical lines called stirrups; one of these is visible in the picture on the right.

Depending on the configuration, the footrope may turn over large rocks or boulders, disturb or damage sessile organisms or rework and re-suspend bottom sediments.

If sailors fell from a footrope under a yardarm, they would either land on the deck (within the devil plank) or in the water (outside of the devil plank).

Miracle of miracles, the snarl-up was beginning to clear, and men could shin up the makeshift mast and out on the yard - gingerly, since there wasn't any footrope.

The beautiful blonde clutching with fingers like claws at the footrope there below the mast, hanging fifty feet above her own deck, her feet kicking helplessly in thin air!

Formerly, the footrope was the rope sewn along the lower edge of a square sail, and the rope below the yards was called the horse or Flemish horse.

The vertical opening of a trawl net is created using flotation on the upper edge ("floatline") and weight on the lower edge ("footrope") of the net mouth.

Rarely, the footrope (or footrope plus handrails) is combined with an overhead rope similar to a zip-line (see also Ropeway).

The Flemish horse, being at the outer end of the yard, often made of thinner rope and attached only at its ends, is somewhat unstable compared with the main footrope.

There is some evidence that at one time all footropes were known as "horses" (e.g., in German, the footrope is to this day called "Fußpferd", i.e. "foot horse").

Leaning forwards over the yard helps with balancing on the footrope, but where the buntlines come down to the yard it is necessary to lean back or crouch down to get around them.