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The New International Encyclopædia/Horse (shipboard)

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2132339The New International Encyclopædia — Horse (shipboard)

HORSE. On shipboard, an iron jackstay or rail used as a traveler's guide or securing bar, usually called a horse-rail. Also the old name for a foot-rope on a yard; and the secondary foot-rope at the end of a yard is still called the Flemish horse.