main-truck

• “Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?”

  Moby Dick; or the Whale

• “I tell you what, you shall slush that mast down from the main-truck to the bitts; and look sharp about it, too, or I'll make you!”

  The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea

• “It's one of our cruisers, boys," whispered Captain Harding, whose keen eyes had distinguished a pendant flying from the main-truck of the new-comer.”

  Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

• “The decks themselves were as white as holystones, sand, and much elbow grease could make them, and, with her white hull with its encircling green riband and cherry-red waterline, her yellow lower masts and funnel, and a brand-new pendant flying from the main-truck and large White Ensign flapping lazily from its staff on the poop, the”

  Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories

• “He came aboard with a black coat, and his papers right, and money enough in his box to buy the thing right up from keel to main-truck.”

  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

• “Salters was not an amiable person (He esteemed it his business to keep the boys in order); and the first time Harvey, in fear and trembling, on a still day, managed to shin up to the main-truck”

  Captains Courageous

• “He hung my boots on the main-truck, and he ain't over an 'above respectful to such as knows more'n he do, specially about farmin'; but he were mostly misled by Dan.”

  Captains Courageous

• “An 'I'd set up on the main-truck doin' out my wings an 'tail,”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-07

• “The inflammable cargo, the tarry ropes and cordage, fed the flames, which leaped from hull to main-truck.”

  The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)

• “Every thing from jib-boom to main-truck, that would draw, was set on the "Ranger;" and the gallant little vessel ploughed along at a rate that almost belied her reputation as a slow craft.”

  The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)

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