tryworks

"tryworks" amidships, revealing two gigantic pots set in a frame of brickwork side by side, capable of holding 200 gallons each.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps — often but old bottles and vials, though — to the copper cooler at the tryworks, and replenishes them there, as mugs of ale at a vat.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

The rudder was bringing the heavy boat toward the Spanish frigate, which meant the steering oar was faked, which meant the shipwreck was faked, a fact that Ardiles had simultaneously guessed when he saw that the whaler's tryworks, a brick furnace built amidships in which the whale blubber was rendered down into the precious oil, had survived the apparent rolling of a ship that had destroyed three solid masts.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

The rudder was bringing the heavy boat toward the Spanish frigate, which meant the steering oar was faked, which meant the shipwreck was faked, a fact that Ardiles had simultaneously guessed when he saw that the whaler's tryworks, a brick furnace built amidships in which the whale blubber was rendered down into the precious oil, had survived the apparent rolling of a ship that had destroyed three solid masts.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

From the cabin door to the tryworks there was hardly an inch of available space, and the oozing oil kept some of us continually baling it up, lest it should leak out through the interstices in the bulwarks.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

Years ago, in the days when the whaleships from Nantucket, and Salem, and Martha's Vineyard, and New Bedford cruised northward towards the cold seas of Japan and Tchantar Bay, and the smoky glare of their tryworks lit up the ocean at night, the Gilberts were a wild place, and many a murderous scene was enacted on white beach and shady palm grove.

The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 Louis Becke 1884

The wind now began to blow steadily from the nor'-west; but not so hard as to stop our tryworks for more than an hour.

Fighting the Whales 1859

See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps -- often but old bottles and vials, though -- to the copper cooler at the tryworks, and replenishes them there, as mugs of ale at a vat.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

That's right, the Historical Commission took a pass on speaking out on behalf of the last relatively intact whale oil tryworks in existence in the world.

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They didn't lose their tryworks when they rolled! "

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992