marline-spike

When a uniformed policeman shoves his uniformed cap above your gunwale in the dark watches of the night, you don't whack him over the head with a marline-spike.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

Of course I assisted him as well as I could under the circumstances, but as he limped along towards the companion-hatchway, the leader of the desperadoes, that villainous "marquis," who I thought had met with his just deserts long since, not having seen him for some little time among the other fighters, most unexpectedly jumped from the rigging in front of the colonel and aimed a vindictive blow at him with a marline-spike.

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

Corbett got to work on deck with spun-yarn, marline-spike, and knife.

What Happened to the Corbetts Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1939

Corbett got to work on deck with spun-yarn, marline-spike, and knife.

What Happened to the Corbetts Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1939

His gastric juices would have dissolved a marline-spike, and he even made short work of the greater portion of a pair of ammunition boots belonging to the

Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

For answer they jeered and made catcalls, flinging a marline-spike at me.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

For blasphemy and swearing there was "an excellent good way" [28] of forcing the sinner to hold a marline-spike in his mouth, until his tongue was bloody (_Teonge_).

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

"All off," Mr. Murphy declared to the American consul and dropped his marline-spike, as Matt Peasley ripped left and right, right and left into Ole Peterson's dish face.

Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley 1918

Then with a marline-spike, or a pointed stick, work open the strand 1 _c_, and through this pass the strand _A_ of the other rope; then open strand 2 and pass the next strand of the other rope through it and then the same way with the third strand.

Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise 1912

To make this tie, pass a bight of your rope through the ring, or other object, to which you are making fast and then pass a marline-spike, a billet of wood, or any similar object through the sides of the bight and under or behind the standing part, as shown in _A_, Fig. 30.

Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise 1912