Definitions for ratlines

ratlines rat·line

Spelling: [rat-lin]
IPA: /ˈræt lɪn/

Ratlines is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 683 anagrams from letters in ratlines (aeilnrst).

Definitions for ratlines

noun

  1. any of the small ropes or lines that traverse the shrouds horizontally and serve as steps for going aloft.
  2. Also, ratline stuff. three-stranded, right-laid, tarred hemp stuff of from 6 to 24 threads, used for ratlines, lashings, etc.

Origin of ratlines

First recorded in 1475-85; earlier ratling, radelyng

Examples for ratlines

In walking along her gun-deck, he accidentally ran against a ratline, by which one of her starboard guns was discharged.

A sailor came slipping down the ratline one night, as though something had happened, and the sailors cried, "What's the matter?"

It was above the second ratline in the fore-shrouds, and fully six feet over the rail.

A musket-ball carried away a ratline above his head, just as he reached forward.

Collins, bring your party into this room; and do not forget to bring along that length of ratline that I told you to have ready.

Sakr-el-Bahr drank slowly, his eyes never leaving the vessel, whose every ratline was clearly defined by now in the pellucid air.

Word Value for ratlines
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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