How To Use bowsprit In A Sentence
- A small number were waiting on the solid rock-filled reach, the wharfinger's office at its head and a stone warehouse blocking the end, where the _Nautilus_ lay with her high-steeved bowsprit pointing outward. Java Head
- New York had become a seaport with long ranks of high-steeved bowsprits soaring above pleasant Battery Park and a forest of spars extending up the East River. The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors
- The bowsprit was a long, graceful lance, reaching out above his head, but the anchor cable plunged into the water beside him, and he laid a hand on the thick hawser.
- The bowsprit of the _Pique_ passing over the starboard-quarter of the _Blanche_, Captain Faulkner, aided by his second lieutenant and two others of his crew, was in the act of lashing the _Pique's_ bowsprit to her capstern, when he was shot by a musket-ball through the heart. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
- But I have a hard time looking at other boats, especially those with exposed planking, a bowsprit and her sheerline.
- In early 2002, HMS Rose had to be delivered down the East Coast, through the Panama Canal to a dry dock in San Diego and en route had a bowsprit damaged in a hurricane off Cape Hatteras.
- The topmast anticked high in the air for a space, then crashed down to deck, permitting the bowsprit to dip into the sea, go clear with the butt of it of the forecastle head, and drag alongside. CHAPTER XV
- We'll be catching bonita and dolphin, and spearing porpoises from the bowsprit. Chapter 5
- Almost by a miracle, the captain clutched at the bobstay and managed to get one hand up and over the bowsprit. Chapter XIX
- When I got back to the ship, I shimmied up the bowsprit, the long point off the front of the ship.
