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crow's nest

NOUN
  1. platform for a lookout at or near the top of a mast

How To Use crow's nest In A Sentence

  • Several days later, spotting the crow's nest of the ship over the headland of Cape Evans, they lit a fire as a signal for the ship to steam back and pick them up.
  • Roustabouts shouting from the crow's nest float like Ascension angels on a ring of lights.
  • The main culprit is the famous Crow's Nest Pass. rate agreement which has kept grain freight rates at the same level since 1897. Transportation in the Eighties
  • Grant climbs up the aluminium ladder into the crow's nest and surveys the horizon with binoculars.
  • The glassed-in ice pilot's tower is the modern-day equivalent of a crow's nest, three vertical ladders above the bridge.
  • Talon received a job he very much enjoyed, being allowed to sit in the crow's nest high above the wooden deck and scout for any signs of avian life that could prove dangerous, such as rocs or griffons.
  • From there I was in the rigging, getting into the crow's nest, keeping my eye to the lens as I was inches away from the unfurling of a 400 square foot main sail 80 feet above the waterline -- and pointing the glass at the crew as they went about their seagoing tasks. Jerry Nelson: Sea Spray and Time Travel
  • The view to port and starboard along the river from my lookout in the crow's nest was picture perfect.
  • Battling acrophobia and nausea as you scale the mast of this 104-foot-tall ship to the crow's nest and peer down into the roiling water below.
  • Grant climbs up the aluminium ladder into the crow's nest and surveys the horizon with binoculars.
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