cats-head

Updated: May 2, 2025

The heavy rolling of the bark clearly evidenced that we were already at sea, and bucking against a high wind. Occasionally a monster wave broke over the cats-head, and struck thunderingly on the deck above me, the whole vessel trembling to the shock.

Randall Parrish - Wolves of the Sea: Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry: Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell: Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur"