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- verb Present participle of
pawl .
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Examples
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I was certainly the first fireroom officer aboard the Taussig who ever conducted his own hull inspections — I did my own diving — and who wore green fatigues while pawling over, under, around, and through the whole boiler and propulsion system before I signed off that any specific work had been done.
Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992
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They were heave-ho-ing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing, for three hours; and the sails hung from the yards all the afternoon, and were not furled until sundown.
Chapter XXV. Rumors of War-A Spouter-Slipping for a South-Easter-A Gale 1909
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My limits do not allow me to mind my L's and Q's and R's, or I might have enlarged upon such words as _palaver_, and _pawling_, and _peart_, and _prod_, and_romper_, and _ramshackle_, and _rawm_; and I can only dwell upon one selection from the S's, of which there is a long
The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900
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They were heave-ho-ing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing, for three hours; and the sails hung from the yards all the afternoon, and were not furled until sundown.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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They were heave-ho-ing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing, for three hours; and the sails hung from the yards all the afternoon, and were not furled until sundown.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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They were heave-ho-ing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing for three hours; and the sails hung from the yards all the afternoon, and were not furled until sundown.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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