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chained_bear commented on the word cump-winch
"...one of the oldest, most strictly observed of all naval rules required that those who attended to the officers' comfort should never, never be called away unless instant dissolution threatened; yet here before him, at the cump-winches or waiting their turn, stood his own servant, the wardroom steward, Killick himself, and the Captain's cook."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 247
February 14, 2008