ratline

7 letters · noun · scores 1,800 in SpellHuntr

noun

(nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft

Ratline in a sentence

That meant it was not possible to use ratlines — that is, to make rope ladders out of the shrouds by adding small connecting pieces of ropes.

Marc Masurovsky, of the European Shoah Legacy Institute, has a remarkable knowledge of the Nazi ratlines and Allied intelligence.

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