navy-round

Updated: June 7, 2025

But hold them fast all those who have not yet weighed their anchors for the Navy-round and round, hitch over hitch, bind your leading-strings on them, and clinching a ring-bolt into your chimmey-jam, moor your boys fast to that best of harbours, the hearth-stone.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War