How To Use Taffrail In A Sentence

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 waters 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
Her 180 tons measurement indicates, by the general rule of the nautical construction of that period, a length of from 90 to 100 feet, "from taffrail to knighthead," with about 24 feet beam, and with such a hull as this, three masts would be far more likely than two. The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
As soon as they passed the helmsman, he pulled her to the taffrail.