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Is that peece or part of the Bolt-roape which at all the fower corners of the saile is left open, as it were a ring; The two uppermost are put over the ends of the yards or yard armes, and so the saile is at those two ends made fast to the yard, into the lowermost, the tacks and sheates are seased, or as the more proper terme is, they are bent unto the clew.