A variant spelling of buntline, a rope used on sailing ships to haul up the lower edge of a sail for furling.
Variant of 'buntline' from the nautical term 'bunt' (the baggy middle part of a sail) plus 'line' (rope).
Sailors had to invent specific words for every rope on a ship—'buntline' is one of those technical terms that sounds like poetry but is just a practical solution to managing massive sails.
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