bobstays

It would have been easier, I think, with Englishmen, for Yankee bluebacks are deuced serious fellows, more concerned with their d---- d ratlines and bobstays than with interesting topics like drink, women and cash.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

It would have been easier, I think, with Englishmen, for Yankee bluebacks are deuced serious fellows, more concerned with their d---- d ratlines and bobstays than with interesting topics like drink, women and cash.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

The bobstays are of solid iron, running 8 feet on each side of the keel, and going through a strong iron cap over the bowsprit end, where, a strong iron washer being put on, they are securely fixed with a nut.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Does it put forth an article on naval matters -- straightway it becomes salter than Turk's Island, and talks of bobstays and main-top-bowlines and poop-down-hauls in a manner that, to put it mildly, is confusing, and would, if you read it, make you jump as if all your strings were pulled at once!

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 Various

The boys kicked wearily through the tepid water to the schooner's prow, where Greer succeeded in catching the bobstays and climbing aboard.

The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923

The topgallant-forecastle is awash and the end of the bowsprit out of water, so that we can easily reach the upper ends of the bobstays.

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

The mizzen-topsail, which was a comparatively new sail and close reefed, split from head to foot in the bunt; the foretopsail went in one rent from clew to caring, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsailyard sprung in the slings, the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and owing to the long dry weather the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Two startling thunder-claps burst over the ship, at about 9 o'clock, A.M. Last night, at 10, a heavy plunge carried away both our chain bobstays at once, and all hands were turned up in the rain, to secure the bowsprit.

Journal of an African Cruiser Horatio Bridge 1849

The mizzen topsail, which was a comparatively new sail, and close reefed, split from head to foot, in the bunt; the fore topsail went, in one rent, from clew to earing, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsail yard sprung in the slings; the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and, owing to the long dry weather, the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch.

Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848

Such neglect is highly culpable; more especially to rely on bobstays and gammonings for the security of a bowsprit!

The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820