yoke-ropes

Updated: May 2, 2025

There were ten men at the oars, a cockswain at the yoke-ropes, and with him in the stern-sheets a young man in an ensign's uniform, who lifted his voice as the boat neared the lee quarter, and shouted: "Rig a side-ladder aboard that ship!"

Morgan Robertson - Where Angels Fear to Tread and Other Stories of the Sea