tafferel

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She was very heavily rigged, with her main mast raking over the tafferel, and full of men.

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  1. “The upper part of the stern of a vessel” (Totten); “the uppermost part, frame, or rail of a ship behind, over the poop” (Phillips, 1706).
  2. Same as taffrail (which is now the usual form in this sense). We should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum. Thoreau, Walden. p. 342.

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  • It was my common practice to sit for hours after night-fall upon the tafferel, and strain my eyes in the attempt to distinguish objects on shore or strange sails in the distance It happened that, on the 30th, I was tempted to indulge in this idle but bewitching employment, even beyond my usual hour for retiring, and did not quit the deck till towards two o'clock in the morning of the 31st. —  The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815
  • She was very heavily rigged, with her main mast raking over the tafferel, and full of men. —  Tom Cringle's Log
  • The tafferel was green. —  The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
  • Paul; "and folding his arms, he set himself doggedly down on the low tafferel. —  Tom Cringle's Log
  • The tafferel is not six inches below the surface of the water, and half an hour of heaving will bring the starn in sight Your work seems ingeniously contrived to get up one extremity of the vessel, Don Esteban," returned the Mexican; "but are you quite certain that the doubloons are in her This question was put because the functionary of a government in which money was very apt to stick in passing from hand to hand was naturally suspicious, and he found it difficult to believe that Mulford, Jack Tier, and even Biddy, under all the circumstances, had not paid special attention to their own interests The bag was placed in one of the transom-lockers before the schooner capsized," returned the captain, "as Jack Tier informs me; if so, it remains there still. —  Jack Tier
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  1. from Dutch tafereel, a table, panel, a picture, scheme. from tafel, a table, tablet, picture: see table. The name appears to have been applied orig. to the painting or carving which often ornaments the upper part of the stern.
 

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