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“His cargo was to consist of forty-eight "knees" and the breast-hook of the seventy-four.”
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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bilby And I thought my boycott of women's boxing might have spared me :-( Mar 27, 2008
reesetee Good grief, these sound painful. Mar 27, 2008
chained_bear "'In the meantime, let us look at the wreck of the bows with Chips.' ... By what light the lanterns could be induced to shed they gazed at the breast-hooks—at the horrible gashes round the breast-hooks—and sighed."
--Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen, 26–27
A Sea of Words: "Breast-hooks: Thick pieces of timber, curved like knees and used to reinforce the bows of a ship." (p. 119) Mar 27, 2008