gunwale

How To Use gunwale In A Sentence

• As the two little craft pulled through the Gap, Guardian received a salute of raised paddles from the canoe, the tender lifting its oars on the gunwales for one stroke before resuming its rhythm.
• Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
• It was simply fastened to a cleat on the gunwale, with no provision for reeling it back in.
• Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
• Wherever possible, he writes with a seaman's lingo of seaways, gunwales, swells and whitecaps.
• Long-hafted, slender, bone-barbed throwing-spears lay along the gunwale of the canoe, while a quiverful of arrows hung on each man's back. Chapter 22
• Once the boat had settled we shipped the oars, got out our lines, baited the hooks and dropped them over the gunwale.
• There was seating facing inboard along the gunwales of the boat.
• Spring and stern cleats hide under the gunwales with hawseholes above, and the transom also boasts a sink and rigging station and tuna door.
• Wherever possible, he writes with a seaman's lingo of seaways, gunwales, swells and whitecaps.