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Definition of: ratline
(rat′lin) noun Naut.
1. One of the small ropes fastened across the shrouds of a ship, used as the rounds of a ladder for going aloft or descending.
2. The material so used. See SHROUD2. Also rat′lin (-lin), rat′ling (-ling). [Origin unknown]
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