lays-to

Updated: June 8, 2025

He rents the fastest coast-steamer he can find. Then, he goes 'way up north in the Atlantic and lays-to with his weather eye open. Day or two, long comes a' iceberg big as a house. And by , he hitches to it, and Boston gits ice!" And now, like a ponderous bobcat descending upon its prey, Braden stole soft-footed across the room. "Nick!" he said.

Eleanor Gates - The Plow-Woman