off-shutes

Updated: May 28, 2025

"Wal, we sot deown together, 'nd she was so purty I stowed away a mouthful, hardly thinkin' 'nd I run one o' these here main off-shutes from the backbone of a ten-pound cod, abeout tew inches up into the shrouds 'n' riggin' o' my left-hand upper jaw.

Sarah Pratt McLean Greene - Vesty of the Basins