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But the mountainous waves took her with irresistible force from her chesstree, retarding her velocity, and forcing her each moment nearer to the reef Wear ship, Mr Hardy," said the captain, who had not spoken one word since he rebuked the quarter-master--"we have but just room The master directed the man at the wheel to put helm up, in a firm but subdued tone, for he was at that moment thinking of his wife and children.— The King's Own
Then to the chesstree drag the unwilling tack.— The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
a sea broke over her chesstree, which nearly drowned us where we were clinging.— Percival Keene
On came the watery mountain with its curling crest of snowy foam, and, striking the ship with terrific force and with a noise like thunder, broke over the starboard chesstree, deluging the decks forward and carrying away a fine cutter off the larboard skidds, with some of the rails and carlings of the head.— Hurricane Hurry
She was what sailors term rather _a wet one_, and as she plunged through the short waves the sea broke continually over her bows and chesstree, so that there was no occasion to draw water for purification.— Newton Forster The Merchant Service
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