spanker-out-haul

Updated: May 3, 2025

Well, don't he look as if he wanted to flog someone? Look at him once." But to me, at least, no such indications were visible in the deportment of the Captain, though his thrashing the arm-chest with the slack of the spanker-out-haul looked a little suspicious. But any one might have been doing that to pass away a calm.

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