taw-sail

Updated: May 17, 2025

There's a family look about all the craft some men build, and this may be a sort of relation of our missin' schooner." "I'll not answer for the craft, though that's her blue peter, and them's her mast-heads, and I turned in that taw-sail halyard-block with my own hands.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Sea Lions: The Lost Sealers