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To that was shackled a seventy-five foot boom, and eighty-odd tons of pig-iron were cemented close down to her keel, and that floored over and stanchioned snug.
From The Seiners by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)
It is set lengthwise, fore and aft, a stout hair-cloth chair at top, another at bottom, and one at each side—all, like the table, stanchioned to the timbers of the half-deck.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
The deck cabins, though yawning and seamed, were so firmly stanchioned that he could not drag out so much as a plank.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
The doors were closed, and the windows were stanchioned with iron.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken
In a time shorter than it takes to tell it, the two doomed men are made fast to the stanchioned chairs; where they sit bolt upright, firm as bollard heads.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
