How To Use Bowsprit In A Sentence
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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Weak, trembling, soaking wet, I made my way back along the bowsprit until I could climb into the forepeak.
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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Ashtalán smiled as she watched him go, and then leaped nimbly from the deck to the bowsprit.
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Without the support of the bowsprit, the long spar that extends forward from the bow of the ship, there was no support for the masts.
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He hoisted himself onto the cutwater, and by the bowsprit arrived at the forecastle.
The Mysterious Island
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Without the support of the bowsprit, the long spar that extends forward from the bow of the ship, there was no support for the masts.
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I hung over the side of the pulpit and saw that the bobstay chain was shackled to the end cap on the bowsprit, so I hunted up a wrench and another shackle.
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Besides some broken sails, they suffered a huge wipe out, breaking a rudder, daggerboard and bowsprit, and shredding their spinnaker in the process.
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Three sails are carried on the bowsprit along with the spritsail that hangs from the spritsail yard.
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Her bowsprit carries two foresails, and her large mainsail is gaff rigged, with an upside-down triangle of topsail to fill the gap at the masthead.
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She has 27 sails in a frigate rig on three masts and a bowsprit, with a total surface area of 2,683 square metres.
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She went as far forward as she could, to the very bowsprit of the ship.
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The chain hung straight down from the chock of the bowsprit and although our flags above flickered in the breeze, the water lay unruffled.
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Adrianna was standing on the forecastle deck near the bowsprit of the ship, staring out at the crashing waves and crystal clear water.
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Bonne-Renommée, the flagship, was a vessel of 120 or 150 tons, and about ninety feet long overall, including her great poulaine, or prow, which projected forward under the bowsprit.
Champlain's Dream
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A mizzen mast, near the stern carried a fore and aft sail; another sail was spread below the bowsprit, and smaller topsails were set above the mainsail and foresail.
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Manufacturers produced copper or bronze hull fittings, solid bronze bars for the bobstays on the bowsprit, phosphor-bronze wire for the headstays, and bronze blocks for the running gear.
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‘Starboard,’ ‘Port,’ ‘Bowsprit,’ and similar indications of a mutinous undercurrent, though subdued, were audible, Bill Boozey, captain of the foretop, came out from the rest.
A Holiday Romance
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The outermost one, called the flyaway, was being furled, though the sailor stretched out upon the stay beneath the bowsprit was drenched by each downward plunge of the schooner's bow.
Ralph Granger's Fortunes
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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To lay out on the long bowsprit and put a single reef in the jib was a slight task compared with what had been already accomplished; so a few moments later they were again in the cockpit.
Chapter X
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Thomas Mugridge being duly bribed, the galley is pleasantly areek with the odour of their frying; while dolphin meat is served fore and aft on such occasions as Johnson catches the blazing beauties from the bowsprit end.
Chapter 7
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A bare bamboo washing-pole, angled like the bowsprit of a yacht, projects above the street.
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He had doubled round the bows of the yacht, and I did the same, ducked under the bowsprit, forgetting the bobstay, and fell violently on my head, with all the wind knocked out of me by a wire rope and block whose strength and bulk was one of the glories of the Dulcibella.
The Riddle of the Sands
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There are substantial bulwarks around the side and forward decks for secure footing, and a large foredeck locker, with the anchors stowed on the bowsprit.
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She stood at the bowsprit of the ship, as still as the bolted-down bench she was standing on.
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If brute force isn't your forte, you're also encouraged to take the helm, visit the engine room or walk out on the bowsprit.
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Her bowsprit carries two foresails, and her large mainsail is gaff rigged, with an upside-down triangle of topsail to fill the gap at the masthead.
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Adrianna was standing on the forecastle deck near the bowsprit of the ship, staring out at the crashing waves and crystal clear water.
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You're also encouraged to take the helm, visit the engine room or walk out on the bowsprit.
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The bowsprit is set up with double chain bobstays and double chain bowsprit shrouds.
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There was no breeze, and as the clumsy ship rolled and lurched on the heaving sea, her idle sails flapped against her masts with a regularly recurring noise, and her bowsprit would seem to rise higher with the water's swell, to dip again with a jerk that made each rope tremble and tauten.
For the term of his natural life
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There is no doubt that getting rid of the leverage of the bowsprit, right up in her eyes, eased her a good bit; and as the topmast was a pretty heavy spar, too, that also helped.
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
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Yes, that long low hull, with its abnormal length of counter, and its bold sheer forward, the high, dominating bow with its excessive rake of stem, and the peculiar steeve of the bowsprit were all familiar to me.
A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story
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One aspect of fitting a bobstay is that instead of the rear end of the bowsprit pressing down into its mounting on the mast step, it is now pushed backwards towards the mast.
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She has 27 sails in a frigate rig on three masts and a bowsprit, with a total surface area of 2,683 square metres.
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Her bowsprit carries two foresails, and her large mainsail is gaff rigged, with an upside-down triangle of topsail to fill the gap at the masthead.
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As with the bobstay chains were used for the bowsprit shrouds from about 1850, which were set up with hearts or rigging screws.
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After dinner, the two went on deck to walk arm in arm from the quarter-deck to the bowsprit and back again.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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He knew her at once: three-masted barque, high bowsprit -- the Constantine.
THE MAIN CAGES
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But with an unstayed main mast and a retractable or fold up bowsprit my usual objections to them are overcome.
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Mr. Burtsall alone was preserved, as in falling he caught hold of one of the bobstays, and reached the bowsprit.
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During the reign of Henry the Eighth, ships with two and three masts carried main and top sails, lateen mizzen sails and spritsails set under the bowsprit.
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They saw the top main mast fall, could see the billowing smoke from her starboard side, and the bowsprit of another ship sticking beyond her stern.
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The spritsailyard rattled, and broke off sharp'at the point where it crossed the bowsprit; and a heavy smashing thump against our bows told, in fearful language, that we had run her down.
Tom Cringle's Log
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The martinganes flatten in their jibs along their high steeving bowsprits and jib-booms.
The Children of the King
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I could not be absolutely certain of her identity until her hull should heave up clear of the horizon, but that jaunty steeve of bowsprit and the hoist and spread of those topsails were all very strongly suggestive of the
A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron
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The cutwater crushed, the bowsprit sundered, decks awash with blood.
DANCING ON AIR
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Hurrah!" he shouted; "here comes another ship under a fore-jurymast and her bowsprit gone.
The Rival Crusoes
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The fore part of the frigate was several feet above water, and the bowsprit steeved in the air; of the after part there were but three or four broken timbers to be seen clear of the water, so deep had it been buried in the sand.
Percival Keene
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A staysail halliard parted and the sail drifted down to drag in the sea until a rush of seamen went forrard along the bowsprit to pull it in and attach a new halliard.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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He knew her at once: three-masted barque, high bowsprit -- the Constantine.
THE MAIN CAGES
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I hung over the side of the pulpit and saw that the bobstay chain was shackled to the end cap on the bowsprit, so I hunted up a wrench and another shackle.
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Next we had to set the course sail, the top sail of the forward mast, then the foresails out over the bowsprit.
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Even the very steeve of the bowsprit seemed familiar to me, and I felt certain that the superbly cut jib and handsome trysail could belong only to the _Barracouta_!
The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast
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Hedera stood at the bowsprit of the ship, as still as the bolted-down bench she was standing on.
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The chain hung straight down from the chock of the bowsprit and although our flags above flickered in the breeze, the water lay unruffled.
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There are substantial bulwarks around the side and forward decks for secure footing, and a large foredeck locker, with the anchors stowed on the bowsprit.
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When I got back to the ship, I shimmied up the bowsprit, the long point off the front of the ship.
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Almost by a miracle, the captain clutched at the bobstay and managed to get one hand up and over the bowsprit.
Chapter XIX
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We'll be catching bonita and dolphin, and spearing porpoises from the bowsprit.
Chapter 5
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The topmast anticked high in the air for a space, then crashed down to deck, permitting the bowsprit to dip into the sea, go clear with the butt of it of the forecastle head, and drag alongside.
CHAPTER XV
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In early 2002, HMS Rose had to be delivered down the East Coast, through the Panama Canal to a dry dock in San Diego and en route had a bowsprit damaged in a hurricane off Cape Hatteras.
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But I have a hard time looking at other boats, especially those with exposed planking, a bowsprit and her sheerline.
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The bowsprit of the _Pique_ passing over the starboard-quarter of the _Blanche_, Captain Faulkner, aided by his second lieutenant and two others of his crew, was in the act of lashing the _Pique's_ bowsprit to her capstern, when he was shot by a musket-ball through the heart.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
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The bowsprit was a long, graceful lance, reaching out above his head, but the anchor cable plunged into the water beside him, and he laid a hand on the thick hawser.
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New York had become a seaport with long ranks of high-steeved bowsprits soaring above pleasant Battery Park and a forest of spars extending up the East River.
The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors
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I saw the familiar black hull, the bowsprit, the gaff rig, the extraordinary long boom that overhung the stern by a good ten feet, the varnished spars, and the wood rings that held the mainsail to the mast.
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Another great delight I had consisted in going out on the bowsprit and fishing for bonitoes and dolphins with a bit of red or white cloth tied to a hook, in the same way as one goes "reeling" for mackerel in the
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
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The term ship, as usually applied, has reference to a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts -- a mainmast, a foremast and a mizzenmast; and these three masts are each composed of three parts, namely, a lowermast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast.
The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
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That yaller, dirty packet with her bowsprit steeved that way, she's the Hope of Prague.
Captains Courageous
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We'll be catching bonito and dolphin, and spearing porpoises from the bowsprit.
Adventures in Dream Harbor
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The "trades" were blowing very moderately as it happened, and the weather was as fine as heart could wish, with a nearly full moon into the bargain, so we were able to carry not only a jib-headed topsail, but also our spinnaker at the bowsprit-end; and under this canvas the little beauty made uncommonly short miles of it, tripping along like a rustic belle going to her first ball.
For Treasure Bound
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Next we had to set the course sail, the top sail of the forward mast, then the foresails out over the bowsprit.
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Even the foremast and bowsprit were fully rigged, their sails taut.
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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I knows the steeve o 'that bowsprit too well to be mistook as to what that brig is.
A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron
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The sails were all furled in tight bundles around the various booms, and a lantern gleamed with white light on the bowsprit.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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A small number were waiting on the solid rock-filled reach, the wharfinger's office at its head and a stone warehouse blocking the end, where the _Nautilus_ lay with her high-steeved bowsprit pointing outward.
Java Head
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Ophelia, like many figureheads of her day, had been arrayed upon the beakhead of the ship, rather than positioned below the bowsprit.
Ship Of Magic
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Masted in three masted barque with topgallant, royal and double topsails, she had a wooden masting containing top masts and topgallant masts of a single piece and a bowsprit without jib-boom.
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We were fortunate in finding in the naval yard, a spar of the New Zealand cowrie pine (dammara) large enough for our bowsprit.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
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The innermost part of the bowsprit, from which the forestaysail flies, is called the heel.
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The Chancellor's hull is three-fourths immerged; besides the three masts and the bowsprit, to which the whale-boat was suspended, the poop and the forecastle are the only portions that now are visible; and as the intervening section of the deck is quite below the water, these appear to be connected only by the framework of the netting that runs along the vessel's sides.
The Survivors of the Chancellor
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A brown patch in the big main-topsail, and the bowsprit steeved more'n ordinary," said Joe.
Blackbeard: Buccaneer
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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She had swum to the bowsprit and climbed back on board.
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The bark is 42 metres long from her bowsprit to her stern, has a beam of almost ten metres and a draught of just under four metres.
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Along the deck, out onto the pulpit and then farther out along the bowsprit he fled, as far away from her as he could get, while the porridge was arguing vigorously with his stomach now, and was not laughing.
