How To Use Turk's head In A Sentence
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Just then small pitter-patter of feet could be heard just above Turk's head.
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Included are lanyard knots for decorative braidwork, bowknots that make loops, Turk's head knots for making decorative handgrips, button knots, sinnets, flat knots, and many, many more.
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The Countess and Silvertongue have checked into The Turk's Head, a bagnio that actually existed in Hogath's time.
Marriage a la Mode, Part 5: The Bagnio
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My father was indeed the smartest and best seaman in the ship; he could do his work from stem to stern -- mouse a stay, pudding an anchor, and pass a gammoning, as well as he could work a Turk's head, cover a manrope, or point a lashing for the cabin table.
Poor Jack
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there were Turk's head lilies and patches of iris, islands of brilliant blue set capriciously in the green sea
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W'y, Miss," answered Jack Molloy, who chanced to be sitting on a spare yard close at hand working a Turk's head on a manrope, "that's the steam-winch, that is the thing wot we uses w'en we wants to hoist things out o 'the hold, or lower 'em into it.
Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
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He is immensely pleased at having discovered a huge slicken-sided fault in the lavas of the Turk's Head.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
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a gammoning, as well as he could work a Turk's head, cover a manrope, or point a lashing for the cabin table.
Poor Jack
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W'y, Miss," answered Jack Molloy, who chanced to be sitting on a spare yard close at hand working a Turk's head on a manrope, "that's the steam-winch, that is the thing wot we uses w'en we wants to hoist things out o 'the hold, or lower 'em into it.
Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
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He must be a bit of an embroiderer, to work fanciful collars of hempen lace about the shrouds; he must be something of a weaver, to weave mats of rope-yarns for lashings to the boats; he must have a touch of millinery, so as to tie graceful bows and knots, such as Matthew Walker's roses, and Turk's heads; he must be a bit of a musician, in order to sing out at the halyards; he must be a sort of jeweler, to set dead-eyes in the standing rigging; he must be a carpenter, to enable him to make a jurymast out of
Redburn. His First Voyage