taffarel
noun
tafferel
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a variation of
taffarel.
Example Sentences
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Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum.
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
I went up immediately afterwards on deck, and looking back over the tafferel, could only just see the glittering spires of Gladstonopolis in the distance.
From The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope
"Pray, sir," said a decent—looking man, who leant on the tafferel of one of them—"Pray, sir, are you going on board of the Commodore?"
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
While these cries were following each other, the skipper himself came on deck, and springing on the tafferel cast a rapid glance around the horizon.
From Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various
I stood holding by the tafferel an hour, gazing on it with a childish delight and wonder.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
