rope-slings

Updated: May 10, 2025

I'll help you aboard the ship." He found a hardwood club beneath his feet one of those cudgels that are used in pounding rope-slings and hawsers and with it cleared a pathway for Clyde and himself. But while still at a distance from the ship's gangway, he suddenly spied the man in the gray suit, who had climbed upon one of the freight-piles, whence he was scanning the crowd.

Rex Ellingwood Beach - The Silver Horde