bowline

• This running bowline, of which several are always previously made ready, is placed by hand round the body of the porpoise, or it may be cast, like the lasso, over its tail, and then, but not till then, can the capture be considered quite secure. —  The Lieutenant and Commander
• And the climax was reached when one day the steward, who had been sent down into the hold to overhaul the stores, came on deck with a face as long as the main-bowline, and reported that there was only food and water enough in the ship to last ten days longer CHAPTER FOURTEEN MENDOUCA BECOMES COMMUNICATIVE Only ten days longer?" —  The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast
• A long piece of rope--top-gallant-studding-sail halyards, or something of the kind--is taken up to the mast-head from which the stay leads, and rove through a block for a girt-line, or, as the sailors usually call it, a gant-line; with the end of this a bowline is taken round the stay, into which the man gets with his bucket of tar and a bunch of oakum, and the other end being fast on deck, with some one to tend it, he is lowered down gradually, and tars the stay carefully as he goes. —  Two Years Before the Mast
• By hauling every brace and bowline, and clapping watch-tackles upon all the sheets and halyards, we managed to hold our own, and drop the leeward vessels a little in every tack. —  Two Years Before the Mast
• One of the men stuck out his leg, and when the creature tried to grab it, a running bowline was slipped round its head, and it was hauled up. —  From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure

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