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Updated: May 18, 2025
They were the most meagre bumpers I had ever seen I do not refer to the real bumpers, the iron bumpers that are connected by the coupling-link and that pound and grind on each other; what I refer to are the beams, like huge cleats, that cross the ends of freight cars just above the bumpers.
"Here, sir!" replied the second lieutenant; but his voice sounded like a whisper in the roar of the hurricane. "Double the hands on the outhaul!" added Terrill. "Stand by the brails!" "All ready, forward, sir!" reported Martyn. "Stand by the fore-sheets! Mr. Cleats!" continued the executive officer. "Here, sir!" said the old sailor, who, with the carpenter, was holding on at the weather-rail.
In case it may be found difficult to obtain the large single boards for the sides of the boat, two or more narrow ones will answer the purpose, although not as perfectly. In this case they should first be firmly attached together by cleats, securely screwed to the inside.
The lee sheet was extended in like manner, and the whole after guard, besides the two adult forward officers, were called to walk away with it. "O, dear!" groaned Mr. Hamblin, after the vessel had given an unusually heavy lee lurch, the jerk of which had nearly knocked the breath out of his body. "What's the matter, your honor?" demanded Cleats, who always pitied a landlubber in a gale.
"Providence has been kind to me in the past, but it's clear she didn't have me in mind when they cut this hole." "Well, Price, I guess all we can do is to go back to town and see if I can get into my cabin I've got an old saw there. If I can find it, I can come again to-morrow night and cut away one of the logs, or the cleats of the door."
With the swerving leap of a startled steed The ship flies fast in the eye of the wind, The dangerous shoals on the lee recede, And the headland white we have left behind. The topsails flutter, the jibs collapse And belly and tug at the groaning cleats, The spanker slats, and the mainsail flaps, And thunders the order, "TACKS AND SHEETS!"
Over the entire façade extended cleats of worm-eaten wood with nails and bands of rusted iron. They were the remains of the grand illuminations with which the household had commemorated certain feasts in its times of splendor. Jaime seemed satisfied with this examination.
But those embraces were exchanged, those earnest handshakes indulged in, and everybody not going to Europe was ordered ashore. What partings, what expectations! The gang-plank is finally drawn ashore, the last lines loosened from cleats and spiles, the engineer's bell rings, and the black hull of the Baltic moves slowly from her pier.
The ends at the posts laid on cleats; the ends in the center rested upon a couple of boards, standing upright, and each having a piece of rope fastened through a hole in it in such a manner, that a man could snatch it from under the planks serving as the floor of the scaffold, and let the whole thing drop. A rude ladder to ascend by completed the preparations.
Carboy, Peaks, and Cleats watched the crew with Argus eyes. It was of no use for Little to fall overboard, for there was no boat to send after him. Perth was not quite willing to attempt a swim to the shore, for a fresh south-west wind kept up an ugly swell in that part of the port where the Josephine was anchored. Shore boats were driven from alongside by Peaks. In a word, Mr.
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