monkey-rope

Accordingly, besides the monkey-rope, with which I now and then jerked the poor fellow from too close a vicinity to the maw of what seemed a peculiarly ferocious shark — he was provided with still another protection.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

This improvement upon the original usage was introduced by no less a man than Stubb, in order to afford to the imperilled harpooneer the strongest possible guarantee for the faithfulness and vigilance of his monkey-rope holder.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

But the monkey-rope, the creepers, the thorns, and the heat were not the worst of our troubles; the whole place was swarming with mosquitoes that hovered about us in clouds and bit us savagely in a hundred places at once.

The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn Harry Collingwood 1886

Whipping out his knife, he quickly cut a long length of "monkey-rope" or creeper, and twisting the tough pliant stem into a grummet round the trunk of the tree, he bade me pass the bight over my shoulders, and then showed me how, with its aid,

The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886

That spider's web suggested to us the idea of setting traps, which we made of monkey-rope, and in which we sometimes caught small game of one sort or another.

The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn Harry Collingwood 1886

The first act of the wretch was to despatch his four assistants into the forest, whence they returned in a short time with three long slender poles and a considerable quantity of creeper or monkey-rope.

The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886

Arrived, apparently, at our destination, we were set down, and immediately bound with _llianos_ or monkey-rope to the bole of a huge tree.

The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886

Half an hour later they returned, dragging behind them two long stout bamboos and a considerable quantity of tough pliant "monkey-rope" or creeper.

The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886

But the undergrowth was so dense and impenetrable that it was not until we had traversed quite a mile of the beach, under the rays of a scorching sun, that we at length found a spot where, by cutting and hacking the monkey-rope and creepers with our knives, we finally succeeded in working our way into a valley enclosed between two ranges of hills running practically parallel.

The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn Harry Collingwood 1886

For, before we proceed further, it must be said that the monkey-rope was fast at both ends; fast to Queequeg's broad canvas belt, and fast to my narrow leather one.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855