enrockment

Updated: May 17, 2025

If by any chance her forefoot should be thrust into one of the many gaps between the enrockment blocks, spaces from two to three feet wide, and her bow timbers thus take the shock, there was a living chance to save her. A cry from Baxter, who had dropped the tiller and was scrambling over the stone-covered deck to the bowsprit, reached the captain's ears, but he never altered his position.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women