Spanish burton

English

Noun

Spanish burton (plural Spanish burtons)

1. (nautical) A purchase composed of two single blocks, or (double Spanish burton) one double and two single blocks.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Spanish burton”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)