taffrail

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• On the night of the 6th, a tremendous sea struck her on the stern, stove in all the dead-lights, and washed them into the cabin, lifted the taffrail a foot or more out of its place, carried away the afterpart of the larboard bulwark, shattered the whole of the stern-frame, and washed one of the steersmen away from the wheel. Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People
• Hands quickly reached for taffrails, stanchions, ratlines or some sort of support, and, a moment later, Raven spun the wheel with all her strength to the right until the helm was hard over.
• He noted Kennedy at the taffrail looking back towards whence they had come.
• Then there were two or three buckish looking young fellows, among the rest; who were all the time playing at cards on the poop, under the lee of the spanker; or smoking cigars on the taffrail; or sat quizzing the emigrant women with opera-glasses, leveled through the windows of the upper cabin. Redburn. His First Voyage
• Our ship was nothing but a mass of hides, from the cat-harpins to the water’s edge, and from the jib-boom-end to the taffrail. Chapter XXVI. San Francisco-Monterey
• He stepped to the stern and gazed over the taffrail at the lights of Ka Zhir.
• Our ship was nothing but a mass of hides, from the cat-harpins to the water's edge, and from the jib-boom-end to the taffrail. Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
• He listened to his steps retreat to the taffrail.
• Pamela was not sitting on the deck, but she was standing near the taffrail looking off the stern.
• And he walked to the taffrail, and stood looking astern that two men who had come aft to splice a haulyard might not perceive his disorder. Richard Carvel — Complete