footropes

Updated: May 21, 2025

In an instant, up started the topmen in pursuit, as it seemed, of the middies in a sort of `follow my leader' chase; and ere the vibration of the commander's voice had ceased to tremble in the air, the active fellows were spread out along the footropes of the yards, loosing the lanyards of the gaskets and casting them off, while the deck-men let go the buntlines and clewlines and other running gear.

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Crown and Anchor: Under the Pen'ant