smith's-trick

Updated: May 27, 2025

The edge of one strip he inserted under an end of the bar of iron on the beam; then connected that strip with another by loops, slid again to the window, and there lay connecting the six strips by a smith's-trick, with skew loops, non-slipping, getting a tin string five feet long.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Lord of the Sea