How To Use Gunwale In A Sentence
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It wasn't buoyant, so, by way of appendix, he fitted a motor tube - two tubes vulcanised together - around the gunwale.
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You never know what quite to expect at boat show product demonstrations, but when someone swings a baseball bat repeatedly into a boat's gunwale, they quickly get everyone's attention.
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At the bottom the gunwale board was seamed to the next board with tread seam and further down with rivet nails of iron.
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He kicked the shore fast free and hopped onto the vessel's bow, then ran sternward along the gunwale to join Sharina.
Lord of the Isles
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Your ship will immediately be surrounded by frantic rowboats, young men standing at the gunwales shouting Halloo!
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But his low gunwale ground against the heavy craft, and the remain - ing correspondent clambered aboard.
THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
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A crowd of fifty thousand packed the stadium almost to the gunwales.
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This rod forms the gunwale, which is secured by strings to the ribs.
The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
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Alvaro was placed precariously on the truck's gunwale, where he angrily insisted that the driver turn the truck around and go back for his hat.
The Captain's Hat
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This is an L-shaped bolt with wing nut that is used to clamp the leeboard bracket to the gunwales.
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While working around a wing dam on the Missouri, a fish suddenly went ballistic alongside, bounced into his lap, slammed into the opposite side, ricocheted off the gunwale and went back in the water.
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She is painted a rich cerulean blue underneath, with a thin buff stripe dividing this from the deep maroon paint of the gunwales.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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Nail them to breasthook, carlines and gunwales.
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Wherever possible, he writes with a seaman's lingo of seaways, gunwales, swells and whitecaps.
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For the upper edges of the sides, called the gunwale (B, B), similar stringers were provided, but they extended farther fore and aft, and amidships were fully six and a half feet apart, whereas the lower stringers amidships were four and a half feet apart.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns
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_fizgig_, while the heads of dogs appear over the gunwales of the canoes, nearly a dozen in each.
The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure
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For example, "gunwale" (the small walkway along the side of a boat) is pronounced "gunnel".
Maggie's Farm
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Plank roads at intervals are pushed far into the swamp, but the banquettes [sidewalks] cease and wooden gunwales and planks take their place.
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Extrusions of 6061 or 6063 are used for structural and decorative sections, such as keels, chines, gunwales, and spray rails.
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As we danced and drank firewater away from the crush, thug after thug was hauled out of the crowd, some spattered with blood, others merely loaded to the gunwales with stolen booty.
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One fair-haired invader lay across the gunwale of a boat, the manner of his death told by the arrow that transfixed his breast.
CHAPTER XII
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After a taxing turtle-wrestling session the next day, I drag myself over the boat's gunwale and sit on a bare metal seat.
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The larger vessel had not changed a scrap—a ship-rigged barque standing about fourteen feet from gunwales to water, which meant she had no cargo aboard—no poop and no forecastle, just a quarterdeck and a galley aft of the foremast.
Morgan’s Run
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Scott jackets the entire shaft in impact-resistant fiberglass so it won't splinter when a rogue wave has you smacking it against the gunwale.
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When a uniformed policeman shoves his uniformed cap above your gunwale in the dark watches of the night, you don't whack him over the head with a marline-spike.
When Eight Bells Toll
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But on this night, waiting for the dew, a little of it, to become more, on the surfaces that were mine, I heard the noises of a dew-lapper moving aft along the port - gunwale -- which was my property aft of the stroke-thwart clear to the stern.
CHAPTER X
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In fact before we knew it we were about to pass right beneath said tree, although this wasn't going to be easy as we were heading for a large overhanging bough which was only about a foot above the level of the gunwales.
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Seats were screwed onto the frames, and hoops of ash fixed on as gunwales.
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I remember being so enthralled by one scene, where the sailors were trying to capture a seabird that had landed on the gunwale, that I almost shouted at my sister, who came into the room just then, Shut up!
Iain Lawrence Talks About Himself
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When her front legs are over the gunwale, apply a bit of downward pressure to give her enough leverage to hop in.
How To Turn Your Pup Into a Boat Dog
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I remembered being very careful never to rub my paddleagainst the gunwale for fear of disturbing the stillness of the cathedral.
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In her frantic efforts to climb back onto the dinghy, her claws ripped a hole in the gunwale.
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He lifted Peter and clabbered over the gunwale after him.
The Thief Taker
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Long-hafted, slender, bone-barbed throwing-spears lay along the gunwale of the canoe, while a quiverful of arrows hung on each man's back.
Chapter 22
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This spacer fills the gap between side and leeboard when board is touching the gunwale and chine log.
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Croyden Treneer leaned on the Maria V's gunwale, watching the dan buoy.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Shorty sat down disconsolately on the gunwale, took a chew of tobacco, and questioned the universe, while Kit baled the boat and the other two exchanged unkind remarks.
THE MEAT
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The stats are so one-sided, that if this was a rowboat there would be no-one on the bear side… which means that water will soon be pouring over the gunwales.
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I hooked my left arm over the gunwale of the dinghy and supported her with my right.
TOY SHOP
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Thick tarps, stretched gunwale to gunwale, deck three-quarters of the Brendan, but where the helmsman must stand there is a gaping hole.
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It's one thing to board the Titanic as it leaves port, but quite another to come on board when the water is coming over the gunwales.
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Then two long sweeps were manned amidship, with two sturdy fellows to tug at each; and the quiet evening air led through the soft rehearsal of the water to its banks the creak of tough ash thole-pins, and the groan of gunwale, and the splash of oars, and even a sound of human staple, such as is accepted by the civilized world as our national diapason.
Springhaven
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We had to hoist the fish in and out of the holding tank and then onto the sling before lifting them gently over the gunwales to release them.
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In consequence, he was entirely too occupied with his own difficulties to notice the gossamer shape poking its head above the gunwales of the ersatz pirate ship suspended above the gambling floor to the left of the pinball arcade.
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But sailors are not easily disheartened, and they forthwith set to work to manufacture a new line out of the rope which they still had in the boat; Tom carefully unlaying the strands and jointing the yarns, whilst George tried his best to manufacture a hook out of a nail drawn from the gunwale of the boat.
The Voyage of the Aurora
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Over the gunwale of the banca, in a sparkle of flying spray, silvery in the morning sun, the maskalonge gleamed.
Darkness and Dawn
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In the dark of night, a 150-foot yacht packed to the gunwales with explosives slowly steams toward Naval Station Norfolk.
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A good question, and in reply we ask you to imagine a tramp steamer packed to the gunwales with volumes one, three and five as we speak chugging its way across the Atlantic.
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Installation was neat and tidy, cables and steering being run down each side of the boat under respective gunwales and thence into the centre console.
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For their own safety, the two rescuers should lift together, and bring the swimmer into the canoe in stages - arms over gunwale, torso over gunwale, one leg over, etc.
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Wherever possible, he writes with a seaman's lingo of seaways, gunwales, swells and whitecaps.
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Spring and stern cleats hide under the gunwales with hawseholes above, and the transom also boasts a sink and rigging station and tuna door.
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There was seating facing inboard along the gunwales of the boat.
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Once the boat had settled we shipped the oars, got out our lines, baited the hooks and dropped them over the gunwale.
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Long-hafted, slender, bone-barbed throwing-spears lay along the gunwale of the canoe, while a quiverful of arrows hung on each man's back.
Chapter 22
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Wherever possible, he writes with a seaman's lingo of seaways, gunwales, swells and whitecaps.
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Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
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It was simply fastened to a cleat on the gunwale, with no provision for reeling it back in.
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Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
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Every five fathoms he flicked at the line and a coble came swinging up out of the net room, over the gunwale and into the water.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Rotation ( near hip ), inside shoulder above the gunwale, armpit away from head.
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The mainmast was a wreck; the shrouds on the port side having been torn from the gunwale the second day of the storm, and the entire deck was one mass of debris and wreckage.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen
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A crowd of fifty thousand packed the stadium almost to the gunwales.
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Braced against the thwart, I hang my paddle far over the left gunwale and suck the stern toward it, and the edge of the table rock whisks by our port side.
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She was down almost to her gunwales in the waist, the seas washing forward over her flat aft deck, the drogue line stiff out astern.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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But when the houseboats line up gunwale to gunwale in a cove thick with blue exhaust, the river becomes a student paradise and every parent's worst nightmare.
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I'm perched on the gunwale of a boat rocketing along at breakneck speed, getting ready to jump into the emerald waters of Australia's Moreton Bay.
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Once the boat had settled we shipped the oars, got out our lines, baited the hooks and dropped them over the gunwale.
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So we're sitting there and each of us takes hold of the gunwale and there's snow all around and we're sitting waiting for the launch.
THE MAIN CAGES
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As the two little craft pulled through the Gap, Guardian received a salute of raised paddles from the canoe, the tender lifting its oars on the gunwales for one stroke before resuming its rhythm.
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It is at its best when he is describing natural phenomena, from the insect trill which is "like some great tinnitus", through the "black fists" of bats, swooping and darting, to the beetle which runs along the gunwale of a pirogue, "dense, heavy armoured, a brutal tank on tiny legs".
The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx – review
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Mrs. Vervain gave a frailish start from the chair, into which she had sunk, "Oh, do let us be off at once, then," she said; and when they stood on the landing-stairs of the hotel: "What gloomy things these gondolas are!" she added, while the gondolier with one foot on the gunwale of the boat received the ladies 'shawls, and then crooked his arm for them to rest a hand on in stepping aboard; "I wonder they don't paint them some cheerful color.
A Foregone Conclusion
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For, see you, it was our custom to lick the dew from the oar-blades, the gunwales, the thwarts, and the inside planking.
CHAPTER X
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A crowd of fifty thousand packed the stadium almost to the gunwales.
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The real Castle of Otranto, built by the Aragonese who eventually repelled the Turks, is a photogenic, perfectly preserved, white fortress, with turrets and gunwales and surrounded by a waterless moat and accessible only by drawbridge.
Nina Burleigh: Remembering Too Well
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Hands pulling him in over the inflated rubber gunwale, his eyes open now, Patrick grinning, Mel heaving herself up beside him.
CORMORANT
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Broken windows and rotted gunwales allow plenty of light inside.
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Across Europe, gigantic music stores stuffed to the gunwales with American pop, rock and urban do a sideline in hipster books.
