Posted by Ike Stephenson on August 10, 2004 at 17:38:08 from 4.15.190.10 user explenture.
In Reply to: Ropes? On a boat? posted by Ross Cossar on August 04, 2004 at 23:31:49:
Typically I take a rope to be in a bulk, unsold form. As in a spool of a given diamater and type of rope.
When a rope is cut and say an eye splice is put it in and it's used as a halyard or a sheet...as in genoa sheet then it's a line.