shear-pole
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Noun[edit]
shear-pole (plural shear-poles)
- Alternative form of shearpole
- 1864, Thomas Liddell Ainsley, A guide book to the Local marine board examination, page 243:
- The ratlines of the lower rigging should be thirteen, and of the topmast rigging eleven inches apart, and all square with the shear-pole.
- 1886 February, Charles Ledyard Norton, “Yachting in Midwinter”, in Outing, volume 9, number 5, page 424:
- The gaff and the luff run on this fore shear-pole, as if it were a stay.
- 2016, Rob MacGregor, The Lost Tribe:
- The door of the steerage room slammed behind Captain John Mayhue as he reached for a shear-pole and swung himself up into the mizzen rigging to see for himself.