vargord

noun

1. A spar or bar used instead of a bowline.

   historical

   I think the five reefs on the foresail may be a mistake, the two upper cringles serving really for the vargord — not shown. There seem to be two bowlines to the mainsail.

Where it comes from

Most possibly originating from Cornish dialect. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the term vargood back to 1726 in the writing of Samuel Penhallow, politician and historian.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry vargord (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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