"rombowline" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1909, F. Marion Crawford, chapter XX, in Stradella: An Old Italian Love Tale, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 348",
          "text": "It has probably been destroyed altogether, but Rome is a great place for treasuring rubbish and rombowline, and perhaps the old keyboard still exists, with stacks of wooden and metal pipes and bundles of worm- eaten trackers, all piled up together and forgotten in some corner of the crypt, or in some high belfry room or long-closed attic above the gorgeous ceiling of the Basilica.",
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          "ref": "1929, Viola Irene Cooper, Windjamming to Fiji, New York: A. L. Burt Company, →OCLC, page 114",
          "text": "The port and starboard walls were lined with three-tiered berths so close together that the occupant must enter by assuming a half sitting, half reclining position. In front of each hung a shabby bit of rombowline, dating from antiquity. It is used to keep out the air at night and the light during the day when the sailors sleep.",
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        "Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear."
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        "(nautical) Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear."
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          "word": "rumbowline"
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          "word": "rhumbowline"
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      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
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  "word": "rombowline"
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