chappelling

Updated: June 10, 2025

The Sterling must have brought up, and been got under way, between fifty and a hundred times; and as for tacking, waring, chappelling round, and box-hauling, we had so much of it by the channel pilots, that the old barky scarce knew which end was going foremost.

James Fenimore Cooper - Ned Myers: or, a Life Before the Mast