buntline

Noun

buntline (plural buntlines)

1. A type of revolver with an exceptionally long barrel.
2. Any, except the outermost, of the ropes extending down to the deck with which a square sail is rolled up to the yard.
   • The only sail that is wholly ours is the spanker. They control absolutely--sheets, halyards, clewlines, buntlines, braces, and down-hauls--every sail on the fore and main. We control the braces on the mizzen, although they control the canvas on the mizzen.1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI
   • “Cast off the topsail sheets, clew garnets, leechlines and buntlines!” The order came thinly through the roar of the wind.1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 8