thole-pins

And round the thole-pins they fitted the oars, and in the ship they placed the mast and the well-made sails and the stores.

The Argonautica 2008

And all at once a vine spread out both ways along the top of the sail with many clusters hanging down from it, and a dark ivy-plant twined about the mast, blossoming with flowers, and with rich berries growing on it; and all the thole-pins were covered with garlands.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Then two long sweeps were manned amidship, with two sturdy fellows to tug at each; and the quiet evening air led through the soft rehearsal of the water to its banks the creak of tough ash thole-pins, and the groan of gunwale, and the splash of oars, and even a sound of human staple, such as is accepted by the civilized world as our national diapason.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

He hated the near-silence of mid-ocean, the faint creaking of oars upon the thole-pins, the monotonous lap of the waves.

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

The rasp of oarshafts on thole-pins, the slow swirl of blades dipping into the black water, and, incongruously, cooing from the cage of pigeons became the only sounds of the vessel.

Conan The Victorious Jordan, Robert 1984

And above, on both sides, reversing the oars, they fastened them round the thole-pins, so as to project a cubit's space.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

And round the thole-pins they fitted the oars, and in the ship they placed the mast and the well-made sails and the stores.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

And round the thole-pins they fitted the oars, and in the ship they placed the mast and the well-made sails and the stores.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

And all at once a vine spread out both ways along the top of the sail with many clusters hanging down from it, and a dark ivy-plant twined about the mast, blossoming with flowers, and with rich berries growing on it; and all the thole-pins were covered with garlands.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

There was a bright golden gleam as the oars dipped, and a swirl of phosphor fire at the stern like little wandering stars, when I heard the noise of oars and the creak of thole-pins, and I turned to look, thinking maybe some other was at the fishing, but the boat was heading for the port at the

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars