| 单词 | becket |
| 例句 | Life buoys.—Forty-eight, with beckets, were supplied, of pattern approved by the board of trade. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z The men's rifles were already in the boat, secured by light lashings, termed "beckets", under the thwarts. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z He caught at one of the beckets as he slipped; but it carried away, and down he went, striking the water within a few feet of the frigate's side. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z And not till then did our skipper, ten hours to the wheel, unclinch his grip, hook the becket to a spoke, slat his sou’wester on the wheel-box and ease his mind. The Seiners Tanner suddenly straightened up, and slipping the wheel swiftly into the becket, he ran to the taffrail and looked over the side. The Harbor of Doubt "Who are you?" demanded the officer, as Jack slipped a becket over one of the spokes in the wheel and came forward to meet him. Marcy The Blockade Runner Singing out to the men to hang on, I made my way aft to where we had an ax, lodged in its beckets on the after house. The Grain Ship The harpoon iron is a socketed tool, tapering 3 feet to the barb-heads; on that iron socket a becket is worked; the staff fits in loosely. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Hand in hand they leaped into the sea; and Denman, towing the girl by the becket of her life-buoy, paid no attention to the sinking hull until satisfied that they were safe from the suction. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility I put the wheel in the becket and in one jump released the mains’l throat-halyards, while another fellow released the peak. The Harbor of Doubt He placed Jack’s hand on one of the beckets, and took another himself, and together they climbed up, and sat on the life-buoy. The Three Midshipmen We were on the starboard tack, and the throat-halliard came down to port as usual, and I suppose there were at least three men at it, hoisting away, while I was at the beckets. Man Overboard! The term is also used for putting the bights of the sheets in the beckets. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. “Get hold of that line, Webb, and stand ready to haul,” said Mr. Gibson to me, taking the heavy whalegun from its covered beckets, 149after changing places again with old Tom. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers There were ten of these sweeps, or long, heavy oars, working through the ports, in beckets firmly lashed to ringbolts in the stanchions, that were evidently placed there expressly for that particular purpose. The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast I told them what I was come down for, and striking a light, I took down my chart from the beckets in which it hung, and spread it out on the table. Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler As we hauled up the boat, the second mate told Sam to take his harpoon-iron on shore for him, to have the hole for the becket punched larger. Jacob Faithful In some ships they have given place to beckets.—Double gaskets. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. I brought him the glass, which was kept hung up in beckets within the companion-hatch. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor They had also darts with barbed edges, which they threw from a becket or sort of sling fixed to the hand. Twice Lost Saying this, the mate took hold of one of the beckets which Nub had secured for the purpose, and struck out boldly to the westward. The South Sea Whaler Throwing myself on my chest, I felt round and discovered some beckets, evidently intended for the purpose of enabling a person situated as I was to draw himself up. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures Also, a bit of canvas sewed into the centre of a sail near the head, with an eyelet-hole in the middle for the bunt-jigger or becket to go through. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. There were also beckets fixed to it, and lashings, with which to secure ourselves as well as the casks and baskets of provisions. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor There were benches along the sides, a spyglass hanging overhead in beckets, and a binnacle close by where the wheel had once stood. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors Here, make a couple of beckets, and slip your arms through them; they will awake you if you move in your sleep.” The South Sea Whaler We held on as best we could, by the beckets, which had been secured to the raft for this purpose. Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea Cant term for pockets—"Hands out of beckets, sir." The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. On doing so, great was their satisfaction on finding three boarding axes secured with beckets to the side. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea Sooner than I could have expected I had hold of it, and had placed one of the beckets in Oliver’s hands. In the Eastern Seas Eric then plaited a rope round it, with beckets for them to hold on by; and so, everything being ready, they only waited for a calm day to make the venture. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes So I dropped the coiling lines and, with the oar already to the becket in the stern, whirled the dory's bow head on. The Trawler So saying, I went hastily to the companion, removed the ship’s telescope from the beckets in which it hung there, and quickly made my way aloft. A Pirate of the Caribbees For a full minute he remained thus, then he withdrew from its beckets beneath the seat a long and powerful telescope, which he adjusted and levelled. The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific It is in the beckets, just inside the door of my berth. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War You will find it slung in beckets in the companion.” The Log of a Privateersman Fasten a becket or loop of rope at a suitable position on the mast, to set the heel of the sprit into. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 A becket should be attached to the end to haul them off by. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. I slipped the wheel into the becket, and crept to the edge of the skylights. The Blood Ship He had run his arm through a becket, and did not seem to have moved otherwise, whereas I disgraced myself by falling at full length as the squall struck us. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' Wherefore three bags were made, one for each boat, and attached by a becket to a length of line measuring about twenty fathoms. The Log of a Privateersman Should there be more than one person requiring support, they can lay hold of rope beckets fitted to the buoy, and so sustain themselves. The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels Their tops must be distinctly lettered, in letters one inch and a half long, with the calibre and class of gun they are intended to serve, and made to slide on the beckets. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. They use a becket, in the same manner as at Tanna, in throwing the dart, which, I believe, is much used in striking fish, etc. A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2 A becket, or piece of cord made of cocoa-nut bark, used in throwing their lances. A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 Meanwhile the boat is plunging along through the water, the helm lashed or in beckets, and the skipper hard at work with a knife or gibbing mitt. American Merchant Ships and Sailors Harry dashed to the rail and seized the ring life preserver from its beckets. Boy Scouts in Southern Waters It consists of a simple metal or wooden batten, sliding in two beckets attached to the outer or inner sides of each of the brackets of the carriage, retained in any position by a thumb-screw. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. They use a becket, in the same manner as at Tanna, in throwing the dart, which, I believe, is much used in striking fish, &c. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 The main-sheet ends in a jig of a single block and a single block with becket. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do "Oh, then we make things taut, hoist fores'l, clap the hellum into the lee becket, and go below and amuse ourselves." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 Ring buoys hung in beckets at either side of the pilot house. Boy Scouts in Southern Waters His father was standing outside the principal entrance; and, as he joined him on the steps, he saw two men from the Nautilus carrying his ship's desk by the beckets let in the ends. Java Head In striving to jerk the becket clear, it parted, and the forward ends of the four sweeps rolled down the schooner's side into the water. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast They hold the dart between the thumb and the remaining finger, which serve only to give direction, the velocity being communicated by the becket and forefinger. Tropic Days Necessity and numbers prevailed in the end, and the whole building was lined with them, four or five deep, by placing them inside of beckets made of the smaller rigging. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers He was warned that the logging-cable was weak at that old splice and liable to pull out of the becket—and sure enough it did. The Valley of the Giants Soap in the becket over top of it. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights I soon reached the beckets of the sweeps, and found four in them. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast The kassab, after having hung the fore-topsail halyards in the becket, strutted into the waist toward a row of men who stood idly with their shoulders against the side of the long boat amidships. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows They were then lowered overboard, and a long rope rove through all the beckets. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales And as the cask rose, the beckets that had held it to the mother-rope were cut, setting it quite free to come on board, but leaving all the others still secure. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales |
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