So Juan stood, bewildered on the deck: / The wind sung, cordage strained, and sailors swore […]
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Cordage
Synonyms for "cordage" (23 found)
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[…] as the old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering frost all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang […]
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Boatswain Marsham fell to work overhauling the bolts of sail-cloth and the hanks of cordage and the coils of rope, till he had found a new foresail and laid it under the hatch, and had placed great ropes and such cordage as headlines and marlines and sennets so that a man could lay hands on them in a time of haste and confusion.
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A lone river wind sighed in the cordage of the ship.
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