rope-yarns

And his hair was yellow, like the straw of a southern harvest or the manila rope-yarns which sailormen plait.

An Odyssey of the North 2010

And his hair was yellow, like the straw of a southern harvest or the manila rope-yarns which sailormen plait.

An Odyssey of the North 2010

And ever and anon a hand or foot of Jan emerged from the tangle, to be gripped by Lawson and lashed fast with rope-yarns.

JAN, THE UNREPENTANT 2010

Every Sunday they performed on each other the operation of manipulating the pendulous ornaments, straightening them out like magnified marlinspikes, and binding them with ribbons or rope-yarns, tastily fastened at the extremity by a double bow knot.

Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper

He had a thick beard made of oakum; and a wig of rope-yarns, the curls hanging gracefully on his shoulders, was surmounted with a paper cap, fashioned and painted so as to bear a greater resemblance to the papal tiara than to the diadem of the ocean monarch.

Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper

The loss of my jib-boom and a few rope-yarns did not prevent me from cracking on my studding-sails, and leaving the lubber to digest his stupid

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

Musket balls were crammed in bags; bolts and nails were packed in cartridge paper; slave shackles were formed with rope-yarns into chain-shot; and, in an hour, we were once more tolerably prepared to pepper the foe.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

His staple articles of food seemed to consist of tobacco, cigarettes, stray rope-yarns, bristles of brooms, and odds and ends of old canvas, while he was not averse to licking the galvanised compound off the newly painted quarter-deck stanchions whenever an opportunity of doing so presented itself.

Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

The wire used was generally as thick as sailor's marline stuff, or two twisted rope-yarns.

The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

Thursday, Oct. 22d, at San Pedro, in the old south-easter berth, a league from shore, with a slip-rope on the cable, reefs in the topsails, and rope-yarns for gaskets.

Chapter XXIV. San Diego Again-A Descent-Hurried Departure-A New Shipmate 1909