In bad weather it is kept hooked, bowsed taut, and the end expended through the ring-bolt and round the arms of the rear axle.
A hook is fixed on each part of the whip, near the block, so that the parts being bowsed on alternately, a full box is brought up on one hook and an empty one lowered by the other, at the same time.
Couldn't ye've bowsed over on the old jade's pitticuts, Mick?
This represents a stout timber frame, which would be secured in place by short lengths of chain bowsed taut by tackles, so that it would remain rigidly in position.
Not many fellows have been bowsed up in that fashion and cut down so speedily!
These we bent on very carefully, with strong robands and seizings, and making tackles fast to the clews, bowsed them down to the water-ways.
Double gaskets were passed round the yards, rolling tackles and other gear bowsed taut, and everything made as secure as it could be.
The trusses or parrels of the lower yards serve to bind them to their masts and arebowsed taut when the yards are trimmed, in order to arrest motion and friction.
Double gaskets were passed round the yards, rolling tackles and other gear bowsed taught, and everything made as secure as could be.
These we bent on very carefully, with strong robands and seizings, and, making tackles fast to the clews, bowsed them down to the water-ways.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bowsed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
