Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the levers, generally of wood, by which a capstan is turned.
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Examples
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“Nor did I ever have a headache except the time my head was healing after having been laid open for six inches by a capstan-bar.”
Chapter 10 2010
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Suddenly, away aft, I heard shouting, and then on the deck overhead, came the loud thudding of someone pomping with a capstan-bar.
The Ghost Pirates 2007
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The weapon to which the sailor was most partial, however, was the familiar capstan-bar.
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The captain, armed with a weapon which he wielded with both hands, and which I took to be a capstan-bar, struck right and left among the boarders as they attempted to gain the deck, and one, at least of them, fell back with a heavy plunge into the water.
The Island Home Richard Archer
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"As easily as you can distinguish a marlinespike from a capstan-bar," answered Captain Miles.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
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I found myself swimming there, on top, and not so much as a capstan-bar to make me a life-buoy.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various
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Many a good fight used to be settled in th 'old sailin'-ship days with a capstan-bar.
Sonnie-Boy's People 1912
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And if y'ever handled one you know what a great little persuader a capstan-bar is.
Sonnie-Boy's People 1912
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Soon I had two of the enemy backed up to the forehatch, and before their worryin 'eyes I flourishes my capstan-bar.
Sonnie-Boy's People 1912
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Suddenly, away aft, I heard shouting, and then on the deck overhead, came the loud thudding of someone pomping with a capstan-bar.
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