breasthooks

Updated: May 4, 2025

She plunged her head into the sea, and then, her stern settling gradually down, her huge bows rose up, showing the bright copper, and her stem and breasthooks dripping, like old Neptune's locks, with the brine. Her decks were filled with passengers, who had come up at the cry of ``Sail ho! and who, by their dress and features, appeared to be Swiss and French emigrants.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast