Then they started heading for the bay, Thormod taking the bow-oars with Thorgeir amidships and Grettir in the stern.
At last Grettir noticed a ship rowing up to the island, not large, covered with shields amidships and painted above the water-line.
Grettir said: "The stern will not be left behind if the rowing amidships is all right.
Defn: A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle.
Ship pendulum, a pendulum hung amidships to show the extent of the rolling and pitching of a vessel.
He stared first at the flag, and then at the men amidships who were watching him, until our gun-deck crowd laughed aloud.
Phil came very near tumbling over me as he tried to get out of the cabin in a hurry; and we were hardly more than amidships before we met Master Hackett, togged out within an inch of his life.
On this evening our men, greasy and stained with their work of handling oil, were called amidships while Captain Porter stood on the break of the quarter.
They were heavy three-masted ships, with rounded bows, and their upper works built with an inward curve, so that the width across the bulwarks amidshipswas less than that of the gundeck below.
Amidships was a raised structure carrying machine guns on its roof, and having on each side of it a passage, off which opened a range of wooden cabins, oil-painted and varnished.
Balls and arrows whistled around him, along the bulwarks amidships his men were fighting hand to hand with the Seraskier's galley that lay lashed alongside.
Amidships is the cabin space with sufficient room for a crew of twenty-five.
He came aft and took the oar from me, and I was glad to lie down on the floor boards amidships and rest.
I went to the open space amidshipswhence we baled, and watched for a few minutes, and saw that we could do nothing but run, unless the other tack would serve us.
And we can save all the goods we stowed amidships before the tide rises again.
The sheet had fouled the great cleat which was bolted to the deck beams amidships aft for the backstay, and that was easily cleared.
So it was not long before the old king lay with his feet toward the sea on the fathom of planking which we had lowered from where it was made to unship for a gangway amidships for shore-going and the like.
And at his side on the bench sat the Lady Gerda, silently looking ever eastward toward the home she had lost, while I and Dalfin well-nigh dozed in the sun on the warm deck amidships in all content, for things went well with us.
Bob and Jeremy clung to the rail amidships and vied with each other in stretching out over the boiling seas that raced below.
One chanty was being sung up forward, where half a dozen sturdy seamen were heaving at the capstan bars, and another was going amidships as the throat of the long main gaff went to the top.
Job, happy to be on the water once more, took the stern paddle, Bob knelt in the bow, and Jeremy squatted amidships with the blankets and guns.
Mutiny might have broken out then and there, but Stede Bonnet, cool as ever, stood amidships with his arms crossed and a calm-looking pistol in each fist.
For instance, they had floored their craft amidships with a springy cushion of birch boughs for our special benefit.
The boat is too much by the starn, now we've got into deep water, and your weight amidships would be a great relief to us.
A singularly shapely hull carried amidships a grotesque abortion in the form of a super-imposed upper bridge, and the teak deck forward was broken by a square hatchway.
The sides were bevelled, and heavy stones were placed amidshipsto give a slight fore-and-aft camber to the bottom.
The larger boat was always fitted to carry two masts, but by shifting the foremast to a second step more nearly amidships she could be worked with one mast and sail.
Two men met on a level spot amidships and clasped hands.
As they grouped themselves amidships with their clothes-bags, the shipping-master beckoned the chief mate over to the rail.
Bidding me come amidships with the line, Ioane took in his paddle, and picked up the harpoon which we always carried on the outrigger platform in case of meeting a turtle.
Amidships and for'ard, gamming with the boat's crew, the deck was crowded with blacks of both sexes.
Here was where another man in the boat would have been of value to him; for, with me but a few feet astern, he did not dare let go the tiller and run amidships to try to force down the centre-board.
They laid him on a couch prepared for him amidships on the main deck, where the vessel's pitching was least discomfiting.
The Flying Fish was driven by nine propellers, three of these, four-bladed and six feet diameter, revolved a little forward amidships on either side under what might be called the fins.
Of course a big shell square amidships would hurt us, but then she's so handy that I think I could stop it hitting her straight.
Her first shot struck the steamer about amidships on the starboard side, but the master turned her stern to the submarine and put on full speed.
The British steamer Clan Murray was about 30 miles south of the Fastnets on the 29th May when she was torpedoed without warning, being struck amidships on the starboard side.
The Germans under the third officer held the forecastle and between them and the opposition amidships was the bridge.
Then a shell hit us amidships and tore out one of our boilers.
The Tripolitan boat was divided amidships by an open hatchway, and for a moment the opposing forces stopped to catch their breath, glaring at one another across the opening.
There are eight 8-inch guns on the superstructure, in sets of twos, and amidships on the main-deck are four 6-inch rifles.
The sails filled on the new tack; but they were not much better off than before, the sea breaking over them with such violence that the deck, from amidships forward, was only passable with the greatest difficulty and danger.
It rose or fell on a strong powerful lever, on a modified principle used for the disappearing guns; and the frame of the ship had been strengthened amidships to bear the strain.
Amidships the hull sagged so that the deck was not three feet above the water.
But the lost point could not be regained, and the Tampico, instead of hitting the gun-boat amidships and cutting her in two as intended, struck the quarter obliquely, slicing off a triangle of the hull and stern as a big knife cuts a cheese.
From amidships came the clatter of men trying to repair the launch, the one boat which had not been carried away in the night's storm.
Amidships sat another figure, the sight of which gave Samba a delightful thrill of expectation.
He was lying under a grass shelteramidships a dug-out, with his nephew Jack at his side and his man Barney O'Dowd at his feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amidships" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
