1869 , Charles Chapman , All about ships , The first thing you do is to unreeve the yardrope, keeping the end aloft at the crosstrees (perhaps the same rope will do), hook the block on under the cap, or if there is no eye-bolt there put a strap round the cap, hook the block on it, reeve the mast-rope through it, then through the heel of the mast, make it fast to the cap on the other side, and call out, "Haul taut the mast-rope;"
1913 , , Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, Got his hand jammed by yardrope on winch-end. Got his foot jammed between two balks of timber. Fell on deck. A sling of cargo knocked him off ship on to whari. Got his hand jagged by winch-wire.
1953 , Alfred Edward Nicholls, ‎Charles H. Brown , Nicholls's Seamanship, Take the end of a yardrope aloft, reeve it through this block from aft forward, and make it fast round the quarter of the yard.
