Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Headrope"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Headrope \Head"rope`\, n. (Naut.)
That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or
head of a sail.
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