The Keele-roape.
Is a roape which runs alongst the Ship upon the Keele within the Limbers of the ground-timbers, one end comming∣out
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Is a roape which runs alongst the Ship upon the Keele within the Limbers of the ground-timbers, one end comming∣out
out before, the other abast, some will have this of a basse-roape, but the best is a haire roape for lasting: The use of it is, to cleere the Lim∣ber-holes when they are stocked with ballast, or any thing else, so as the water which lies betwixt the timbers, cannot come to the well of the Pump.