Cape Horner
Americannoun
plural
Cape HornersExample Sentences
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In 1855 daily clipper ships from Chile rounded Cape Horn in the roughest seas on Earth to deliver the rock to Swansea, and sailors who had completed the voyage were entitled to bear a distinctive "Cape Horner" tattoo.
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Some friends of the Captain had boarded us from the tug, eager for the novelty of a trip up-river in a real Cape Horner.
From Project Gutenberg
Though I’ve known the same on a Cape Horner.”
From Project Gutenberg
Them buoys is as hard to hurt as gotes, and as tuff as ship's biskit on a Cape Horner.
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It was the Cape Horner, and presently Vandover made out her lights, two glowing spots moving upon the darkness, like the eyes of some nocturnal sea-monster.
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