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“On a trireme, the oar pivoted on an upright, wooden peg called a tholepin.”
“The oarloop held the oar tightly against the tholepin.”
“But for answer he merely stared at her, and a moment later his starboard oar snapped its tholepin like a carrot, and hurled him back over his thwart as the boat ran alongside the _Albemarle's_ ladder.”
“I can step into the boat now, but when you have sixteen stone to drop on the top of a tholepin, I assure you it makes you cautious.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘tholepin’.
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In The Name Of All That Is Good And H...
Here you will find pieholes rather than piety. If you seek that which is holy, you must find the list In The Name Of All That Is Good And Holy... by uselessness.
piehole, doughnut hole, cakehole, the rabbit hole, hole in one, Swiss cheese, potatohole, three-hole punch, portable hole, hellhole, cholent, cholera and 89 more...
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Whaleworthy & Piratical Words
A list of favorite nautical words to be sprinkled liberally throughout speech for piratical or Melvillian effect.
batten down, back and fill, beamy, baulking, beckets, bilge, bold shore, boomjumper, breaker, larboard, abaft, ash breeze and 156 more...
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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
discovered while reading this book.
tendril, spiraea, political asylum, bristly, sordid, reel, garish, dulcitude, gait, charlatan, lapel, august and 96 more...
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