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What is a buntline?

What is a buntline? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A type of revolver with an exceptionally long barrel.
  2. (nautical) Any, except the outermost, of the ropes extending down to the deck with which a square sail is rolled up to the yard.
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An eye worked into the bolt-rope of a sail, to receive a buntline.
Use the slipped buntline where you need to hitch to a very large object where a slipped Sailor's Hitch for a quick-release hitch would prove unwieldy.
But buntline was not to be balked in this way, and asked Nixon what he would rent the theater one week for.
All that saved me was my answer to a question put by buntline.
The lining sewed up the fore-part of the sail in the direction of the buntline to prevent that rope from chafing the sail.
The Buntline Hitch is used to tie a buntline to a square sail.

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