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Buntline

Buntline \Bunt"line\, n. [2d bunt + line.] (Naut.) One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.
--Totten.

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buntline

n. 1 A type of revolver with an exceptionally long barrel. 2 (context nautical English) Any, except the outermost, of the ropes extending down to the deck with which a square sail is rolled up to the yard.

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Buntline

Buntline may refer to:

  • Buntline hitch, a knot used for attaching a rope to an object
  • Clewlines and buntlines, lines used to handle the sails of a square rigged ship
  • Colt Buntline, a long-barreled revolver
  • Ned Buntline (1821–1886), an American publisher, journalist, writer, and publicist

Usage examples of "buntline".

Colonel Buntline here is maybe the most popular author in the United States of America.

SEVEN IN THE COURSE OF THAT DAY, MACKLIN LEARNED FAR more about the adventurous life of Colonel Ned Buntline than he really cared to know.

That had been the first appearance of the pseudonym Ned Buntline, a name taken from the line attached to the bottom of a square-rigged sail.

Only William Shakespeare, Buntline contended grandly, had added more to the English language.

All of this and more, Macklin learned in the day he spent with Buntline, who was pleasant enough as a com- panion, if a bit egoistic.

Macklin knew he was intruding, but the chance to get away from Ned Buntline, at least for a few moments, was too good to pass up.

The bolt hit the side of a building with a flash and an explosion of hot splinters, and both Macklin and Buntline dropped to the street, roll- ing for cover.

Much later, Macklin sat with Ned Buntline on the front porch of the Hacienda, leaning back in a rocking chair as he studied the sparse traffic on Franklin Street.

Egoist and self-promoter Ned Buntline might be, but Macklin liked the man, and knew he would miss him.

He wondered just what Ned Buntline had written in his deposition that had fostered that idea.

Ned Buntline also boarded the train at Tucson, and the two rode together in the same coach.

IN THE COURSE OF THAT DAY, MACKLIN LEARNED FAR more about the adventurous life of Colonel Ned Buntline than he really cared to know.

Ned Buntline was in the area and they wanted to talk to him about writing a book about them.

Smoke will be all that excited about telling Buntline what he wants to know.

The Kid wanted to draw attention to himself, perhaps to add to his self-importance if he got the chance to talk to Ned Buntline, to put another notch on his guns.