Usually means: Rope for standing on aloft.
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  1. footrope: Merriam-Webster
  2. footrope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. footrope: Collins English Dictionary
  4. footrope: Wordnik
  5. footrope: Wiktionary
  6. footrope: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Footrope, footrope: Dictionary.com
  8. Footrope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Footrope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. footrope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Footrope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. footrope: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. footrope: FreeDictionary.org
  14. footrope: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. footrope: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (footrope)

noun:  (nautical) a rope attached to the lower part of a sail
noun:  (nautical) a rope attached to a yard that sailors stood on to stabilize it when furling or reefing

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