nippering

Updated: May 24, 2025

For he dared not smoke; stewards, cooks, and sailors were all about him. In three days the bark's nose was as high as the seven-part tackle would bring it, with all men heaving who could find room at the windlass-brakes. Then they clapped a luff-tackle on the fall, and by heaving on this, nippering and fleeting up, they lifted the fore-hatch and forecastle scuttle out of water which was enough.

Morgan Robertson - Where Angels Fear to Tread and Other Stories of the Sea