mainbrace
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The men on board give a loud cry; the chief mate springs wildly to the starboard quarter, and, making the end of the mainbrace hanging there fast round his waist, drops into the sea.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper
O, my dear eyes! what a relief it was to Mr. Migott and myself to find ourselves in our floating castle, boxing the compass, dancing the hornpipe, and splicing the mainbrace freely in our ocean-home.
From Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins
We did not forget Empire Day and duly "spliced the mainbrace."
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
We spliced the mainbrace, or, as you would say, served out drams; and the helm being lashed a-lee, the ship's company were sent below, to obtain the rest they stood so much in need of.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by John Mackay Wilson
"No, sir; I ain't going to offer any except 'Hands, splice the mainbrace!'"
From In the Yellow Sea by Henry Frith
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