harness-cask

Updated: May 18, 2025

Father sat outside and smoked in the starlight. Hours after I woke up and heard mother crying. Before daylight we were up again, and the steer was cut up and salted and in the harness-cask soon after sunrise.

Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields

The rest of the cleaning was divided among the crew; one having the brass and composition work about the capstan; another the bell, which was of brass, and kept as bright as a gilt button; a third, the harness-cask; another, the man-rope stanchions; others, the steps of the forecastle and hatchways, which were hauled up and holystoned.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast