ratlines
plural of ratline
• Latiners, art lines, entrails, larnites, latrines, retinals, slantier, trainels, trenails
Source: Wiktionary
Rat"lines, rat"lins, n. pl. Etym: [Of uncertain origin.] (Naut.)
Definition: The small transverse ropes attached to the shrouds and forming the steps of a rope ladder. [Written also ratlings, and rattlings.] Totten.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 May 2025
(noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
