How To Use Marline In A Sentence
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Blatheration!" exclaimed my chum, smacking the butt of his rifle on the deck and making the petty officer who was on the other side of the hatchway jump round in a jiffy, looking marline-spikes in our direction.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
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Every day we read of outrageous assaults upon him with marline-spikes and other perverted marine stores, by brutal skippers and flagitious mates, whose proper end would be the yard-arm and the rope's end.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870
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Dr. Marline Barron, Director of Etonkids and former President of American Montessori Association, guided teaching in January.
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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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One of our suppliers located the Manila rope and the tarred marline that was needed for the job.
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For every thumb was a marlinespike and every finger a fid
Old Fid
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If he thinks there's even a chance you're going to lay for him with a marline spike, he'll back off of you.
Ship Of Magic
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She kept hold of the marlinespike, but her wrists quivered, and she lowered it.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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A rope was lowered with a hook upon the end of it; to the hook a canvas bag was lashed with marline.
In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
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Ronica nodded at Rache, but did not put down the marlinespike.
The Mad Ship
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He did so, and had it not been that a writ of Habeas Corpus was immediately sworn out, the Deptford tailor would most certainly have exchanged his needle for a marlinespike.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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Brashen had once worked on a ship where the mate was a bit too free with his marlinespike.
Ship Of Magic
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It was blowing 'great guns and marline-spikes' from the S.S.W. with tremendous sea on Feb. 7, 1865, when there was seen in the rifts of the storm a full-rigged ship on the Goodwin Sands.
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
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That is to say, he hauled a nickel-plated marlinespike thing toward him, shoved another one away from him, took a twist on the steerin 'wheel, the gocart coughed like a horse with the heaves, started up some sort of buzz-planer underneath, and then we begun to move.
The Depot Master
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Everything from tobacco sacks and cigarette papers to a spare cinch and a rope, from a change of clothes to a picture of his family or his girl, from old letters and reading material to a marlinespike, was kept in it.
This Calder Range
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The fore-staysail, which had only recently been hoisted when the studding-sails were set, being now found to be in the way of getting in the anchors, as it prevented the hands from working freely, Mr Marline ordered the downhaul to be manned as soon as the halliards were cast - off.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
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Once considered a part of everyday life by traditional sailors, authentic tarred hemp marline is now a rare product.
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Start a permanent whipping by pushing a needle threaded with waxed marline through the rope a couple of inches from the end.
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After a series of grammatical errors and further assaults on the English language he brought his spirited sermon to an end and introduced to the pulpit a trendy-looking prophetess named Marline.
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Of course I assisted him as well as I could under the circumstances, but as he limped along towards the companion-hatchway, the leader of the desperadoes, that villainous "marquis," who I thought had met with his just deserts long since, not having seen him for some little time among the other fighters, most unexpectedly jumped from the rigging in front of the colonel and aimed a vindictive blow at him with a marline-spike.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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The British were still seven to one; their carronades, loaded with marline-spikes, swept the gun-deck, of which we had possession, and decimated our little force; when a rifle-ball from the shrouds of the
Novels by Eminent Hands
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The loop was then laid over the two ropes, one of which was fast to the sinker, and the other was the unattached end of the line, and "toggled" on with a marline-spike.
Haste and Waste; Or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain. a Story for Young People
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It had been Captain Vestrit's conceit to keep a marlinespike on the corner of his desk.
The Mad Ship
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She took two long steps and seized the marlinespike, yanking it off the desk in a shower of rubbish and clanging oddments.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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Each left a hook in the knot of the inner buntline, as he went out, and dropped the ball of marline on deck.
Homeward Bound or, the Chase
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And it was inconceivable that she would have gone - the Charlotte Meiner I knew would have clobbered you over the head with a marline spike.
When Eight Bells Toll
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A piece of wood showed among the rubble on the desk, the blunt end of a marlinespike.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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Tarred marline is jute twine treated with a tarred solution for water resistance.