he-e-e-ave

Updated: June 18, 2025

A man on the spritsail yard with the lead, another on the cathead with a handful of the line coiled up, another in the fore chains, another in the waist, and another in the main chains, each with a quantity of the line coiled away in his hand. "All ready there, forward?" "Aye, aye, sir!" "He-e-e-ave!"

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast