marlin-spike

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It so happened that the sharp point of the marlin-spike struck the wooden floor of the bridge, and it penetrated the planking with such force that after it had fetched to a standstill it vibrated violently for long seconds.

CHAPTER XLII 2010
Now make it good and fast to that marlin-spike, and stand by to toss it ashore.

Charley's Coup 2010
The man in the upper bunk had completed the mad, sad span of his life with the marlin-spike.

CHAPTER XXI 2010
Shipmate stove me down with a marlin-spike from the main-royal.

THE MAN WITH THE GASH 2010
Arthur Deacon, from the mizzen-top, leaned out and hurled a steel marlin-spike at the fleeing mate.

CHAPTER XLII 2010
Davis is sitting up in his bunk with a marlin-spike, threatening to brain O'Sullivan if he starts to break loose, and complaining that it's no way to run a hospital.

CHAPTER XV 2010
The old man used a caulking mallet and a steel marlin-spike.

THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON 2010
But you - "she wagged a finger like a marlin-spike" - will mind what I've said, and see that my instructions are followed and that the food is cleanly and promptly served.

Fiancée 2010
Rummage about, and find me a bolt or two, a marlin-spike, anything.

Westward Ho! 2007
And then I perceived that it was nothing more or less than a pair of Frenchmen talking about me in the berth next to mine, within the length of a marlin-spike from my blessed surviving ear.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004