Dana, in his "The Seaman's Friend," 1856, uses 'rope' as a general term for all those with specific functions; clewline is "a rope that hauls up the clew of a square sail," a sheet is a "rope used in setting a sail...," halyards are "Ropes or tackles used for hoisting and lowering yards, gaffs, and sails," a guy is a "rope attached to anything to steady it, and bear it one way and another in hoisting," &c. &c.

In the section "Work upon Rigging," "Those ropes in a ship which are stationary are called standing rigging, as shrouds, stays, bachstays, &c. Those which reeve through blocks or sheave-holes, and are hauled or let go, are called the running rigging, as braces, halyards, buntlines, clewlines, &c."

He says nothing about keel-hauling a seaman who calls a clew a rope, or the like.