lazy-painter

Updated: July 21, 2026

There was a gang-board in the boat, however, which lay fore and aft, and I thought this might keep me afloat until some of the fleet should pick me up. To clear this gang-board, then, and get it into the water, was my first object. I ran forward to throw off the lazy-painter that was coiled on its end, and in doing this I caught the boat's painter in my hand, by accident.

James Fenimore Cooper - Ned Myers: or, a Life Before the Mast