main-boom

Sixpence came forward from the idle wheel and watched me veer the chain; then for a quarter of an hour we leaned on the main-boom and watched the crowds upon the shore through field-glasses.

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The _Snowbird_, from bowsprit to topmasts, and down again to the end of the long main-boom, was bright with waving signals and pennants.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

Suddenly, without any voluntary or visible agency on your part, the main-boom sweeps from one side to the other, carrying your hat overboard in its passage, and dipping the gunwale deep under water.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

When the enemy struck he had five feet water in his hold, his main top-mast was over the side, his main-boom shot away, his fore-mast cut nearly in two and tottering, his fore rigging and stays shot away, his bowsprit badly wounded, and forty-five shot holes in his hull, twenty of which were within a foot of his water line.

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat

Meanwhile, he was singing out to the watch to brace round the fore-topsail and help her, to let fly the jib-sheets, and to haul aft the main-boom; the watch below came tumbling up, and everybody was expecting to feel the bunt of our striking the next minute.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

The jibs behind me cracked aloud; the rudder slammed to; the whole ship gave a sickening heave and shudder, and at the same moment the main-boom swung inboard, the sheet groaning in the blocks, and showed me the lee after-deck.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

And then I cut the stays'l free and gave the _Hattie_ her wheel again, and when she was going full-tilt I jibed her over, and she had everything on, and it was blowing blue devils, and only one thing you'd think could happen after that long main-boom went swinging across her deck -- over the side had to go her spars.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

I can dance, I can sing, I can reef the main-boom;

We'll Rant and We'll Roar 1912

He thrust down his helm; and the sloop, forging round to windward, rose upright, with her heavy main-boom banging to and fro.

Vane of the Timberlands Harold Bindloss 1905

Dampier, however, proved an adept at the difficult business, and eventually the schooner _Selache_ crept out from the Narrows at dusk one evening under all plain sail, painted a pale green, with her big main-boom raking at least a fathom beyond her taffrail.

Hawtrey's Deputy Harold Bindloss 1905