Cat-harping
- n. One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.