swifters

A chunky stern-wheeler, with blow-off valve hissing, stood by a boom of logs in the bay, and men were moving back and forth across the swifters, making all ready for a tow.

Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

After we got them on the run, we blowed up their swifters an 'piles with giant.

Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

And this craft bore past there often, inching its downward way with swifters of logs, driving fast up-lake without a tow.

Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Between the tops, too, and the mast-heads, from the fore to the main swifters, and thence to the mizen rigging, and in all directions athwartships, tricing-lines were run, and strung with hides.

Chapter XXVI. San Francisco-Monterey 1909

Between the tops, too, and the mast-heads, from the fore to the main swifters, and thence to the mizen rigging, and in all directions athwartships, tricing-lines were run, and strung with hides.

Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869

Between the tops, too, and the mast-heads, from the fore to the main swifters, and thence to the mizen rigging, and in all directions athwartships, tricing-lines were run, and strung with hides.

Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848

Between the tops, too, and the mast-heads, from the fore to the main swifters, and thence to the mizzen rigging, and in all directions athwartships, tricing-lines were run, and strung with hides.

Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848

"Down, my lads, in a moment by the swifters," cried Jack.

Mr. Midshipman Easy Frederick Marryat 1820

"Down, my lads, in a moment by the swifters," cried Jack.

Mr. Midshipman Easy Frederick Marryat 1820