Editing Running rigging (section)

===Shaping===
* Bowlines run from the [[Parts of a sail#Edges|leech]] (outer vertical edges) of a sail forward (towards the bow) and are used to control the weather leech, keeping it taut and thus preventing it from curling back on itself. To extend its spread it was often attached to a bridle and thence to three or four bowline cringles set upon the leech.<ref name = Biddlecombe />
* [[Clewlines and buntlines|Clewlines]] raise the [[Parts of a sail#Corners|clew]]s (bottom corners) of a square sail to the yard above, either to the outer ends of a yard or, more commonly, to near the middle of the yard, near (but not quite at) the mast. As the clewlines were hauled in, the sheets would be slacked off. This process would be reversed when setting sail.<ref name = Biddlecombe />