sailmakers

Then the two sailmakers, whom I had not yet seen, might prove up.

CHAPTER VII 2010

In addition were sailmakers, boys, bosuns, and the carpenter.

CHAPTER VI 2010

It was a scene of constant hubbub: smiths and sailmakers toiling in their shops, captains and mates hollering after jack-tar seamen, stevedores and draymen wrestling the great wooden barrels called hogsheads used to ship the staples of trade—flour or sugar, wine or rum.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

It seems more likely they are sawyers or sailmakers from the arsenal.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

It was a scene of constant hubbub: smiths and sailmakers toiling in their shops, captains and mates hollering after jack-tar seamen, stevedores and draymen wrestling the great wooden barrels called hogsheads used to ship the staples of trade—flour or sugar, wine or rum.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

The leather-and-cotton harness the sailmakers and pursers had constructed, cleverly attached to the pull ropes by a knot the sailors could tie or undo in a second and which Goodsir could not figure out for the life of him, was too large for his narrow shoulders and sunken chest.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

The complex web of relationships — weavers and dyers and sailmakers; shipping companies, farming houses, alum miners — that made Saraykeht one of the richest cities in the world.

A Shadow in Summer 2006

There he stood, very quietly overlooking some sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

So many men had died aboard Alexander that her sailmakers had had to beg old canvas from other ships; clad in clean clothes, Isaac Rogers was sewn into his envelope and carried on deck.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

So many men had died aboard Alexander that her sailmakers had had to beg old canvas from other ships; clad in clean clothes, Isaac Rogers was sewn into his envelope and carried on deck.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000