thowl-pin

Updated: May 22, 2025

I laid the firelock carefully down upon the ground, and whipping out of my pocket a handful of oakum and some marline, stuffed it and a thowl-pin into the fellow's mouth, effectually gagging him, and, I fear, half-choking him at the same time.

Harry Collingwood - Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War