Come, lay aft here, and bowse out on this reef-pennant!
You take in the gaff-topsail, and bowse down a double reef in the mainsail, and I will in foresail and shift the jib.
When the breech of the gun is above the port-sill, hook the garnet and the thwart-ship-tackle to the cascabel, and bowse on both.
These preparations made, all the numbers man the breech-tackle fall, or divide themselves to bowse upon both falls together, as the position of the gun in the battery may render either mode most convenient.
Hook a rolling-tackle on the opposite side of the yard, bowseit well taut, and the trusses also, if they be of rope.
By the guys on the after part of the rudder and tackles affixed to them, the ship may be steered, taking care to bowse taut the tackles on the preventer stern-post, to keep it close to the proper stern-post.
Bowse up the jib, a colloquialism to denote the act of tippling: it is an old phrase, and was probably derived from the Dutch buyzen, to booze.
A gun-tackle purchase applied to the ends of the truss-pendants, to bowse them taut home to the mast.
The song with which the seamen bowse out the bowlines; the last haul being completed by belay O!
I glanced at the fellow again, caught his sharp weatherly eye once more--then putting both hands to my mouth I sung out to bowse on the jib-halliards.
They bowle and bowse one to another, and for the tyme bousing belly chere.
Mrs. Bowse thinks you ought to go right to bed and have something hot to drink.
Despite her hard needs, Mrs. Bowse would have faced the chance of losing two boarders rather than have kept Mr. Joseph Hutchinson but for Little Ann.
She's just a wonder," Mrs. Bowse and her boarders had said.
They were walking toward the "L" together, and he was wondering what he should say to Mrs. Bowse when he saw his companion fumbling under his coat at the back as though he was in search of something.
Then Tembarom had appeared, heralded by Mrs. Bowseand the G.
He had once heard Little Ann talking to Mrs. Bowse about the price of frying-pans and kettles, and they seemed to cost next to nothing.
And it was at this moment that Mrs. Bowse came into the room.
There was the hall bedroom and the red-cotton comfort for one night at least, and Mrs. Bowse was a soft-hearted woman.
Mrs. Bowse was taking care of a wretched dog for him at the present moment.
Violent and disparaging argument had occasionally been imminent, and Mrs. Bowse had worn an ominous look.
It took Mrs. Bowse and her boarding-house less than a week definitely to like him.
When the curtain drew up on Tembarom's amazing drama, Strangeways had been occupying his bed nearly three weeks, and he himself had been sleeping on a cot Mrs. Bowse had put up for him in his room.
Our spirits returned with having something to do; and when the tackle was manned to bowse the anchor home, notwithstanding the desolation of the scene, we struck up "Cheerily ho!
All hands were now employed in setting up the lee rigging, fishing the spritsail-yard, lashing the galley, and getting tackles upon the martingale, to bowse it to windward.
All hands were now employed in setting up the lee rigging, fishing the spritsail yard, lashing the galley, and getting tackles upon the martingale, to bowse it to windward.
I Bowse no Lage, but a whole Gage Of this ile Bowse to you.
I bowse no lage, but a whole gage [3] Of this I'll bowse to you.
Now bowse a round health to the Go-well and Corn-well [13] Of Cisley Bumtrincket that lies in the Strummel.
I Here safe in our Skipper let's cly off our Peck, [1] And bowse in defiance o' the Harman Beck.
For all this bene Cribbing and Peck let us then, [11] Bowse a health to the Gentry Cofe of the Ken.
Very true, old gentleman; Tom and I did bowseour jibs up a little too taut when we last met--but what then?
The cutter finally captured the dug-out, and brought back Tom Bowse and Bill Bower to their admiring shipmates on board the Alabama.
Bowse looked at his topmasts and topsail-yards, and then at the lee-scuppers, and shook his head.
Bowse himself had taken his meals on deck, as had his mates; and the men had snatched but a minute to satisfy their hunger.
Bowse took a half-minute glass from the binnacle, and watching till all the sand had run into one end, held it up before him.
At last Linton, leaving Bowse in charge of what he called the fortress, proceeded with Raby and Mitchell, carrying the remainder of the water to aid those who either could not or would not move.
Bowse looked delighted and proud at the behaviour of his brig, as he pointed out her good qualities to his passengers.
Bowse fully felt the responsibility of the command intrusted to him, and that the safety and lives of his crew and passengers would depend very much on his forethought, judgment, and coolness.
The crew, driven from forward, were huddled together close to the break of the poop, under shelter of the weather-bulwark, while Bowse and the first mate stood at their old post.
Notwithstanding the heat and the motion, and the excessive weariness they felt from their incessant toil, Bowse and his bold crew set manfully to work to repair the damage the Zodiac had received during the storm.
Bowse breathed more freely, and looked at the studding-sails.
Your uncle is safe on board the Ione, and our good friendBowse is one of the companions of my adventure," replied Fleetwood.
Bowse quickly satisfied himself that the sails were properly trimmed, and that the ship was steering on her right course; but the survey he took of the horizon did not so well please him.
Bowse followed Captain Fleetwood to the roof, and they then assisted their Greek friend and Pietro to ascend, after the latter had extinguished the light, replaced the table bench and casks as before, and swept the rubbish under the straw.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bowse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
