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Example sentences for "cutwater"

Lexicographically close words:
cuttings; cuttit; cuttlefish; cuttles; cutty; cutworms; cuya; cuyas; cuyo; cuyos
  1. Columns C give the resistance in pounds of a square foot of surface at the distance sternward from the cutwater stated in the heading.

  2. In all the experiments in this table, the boards had a fine cutwater and a fine stern end or run, so that the resistance was entirely due to the surface.

  3. B is a cutwater giving a fine entrance to the plane surfaces of the board.

  4. Before the cutwater a wave rises, and, repulsed, rushes outwards.

  5. The boat whose varnished sides but now slipped so gently that the cutwater did not even raise a wavelet, and every black rivet-head was visible as a line of dots, begins to forge ahead.

  6. The stem-pieces were of unusually thick plank, with the head broadened and the cutwater part outside the bark cover sharpened until near the head, where it gradually became as wide as inboard.

  7. With plank stem-pieces the ends of the bark cover were slightly inboard of the cutwater line, sometimes protected by a rabbet.

  8. The stem-pieces were of plank, the cutwater portion outside the bark cover being sharpened the full height of the stems.

  9. A cutwater batten was placed over the edges of the bark between the battens, and the three were lashed together, with the bark, by a coarse spiral wrapping or by group ties.

  10. Above this protective strip, the end seams are filled with gum so that the outside can be smoothed off flush on the face of the cutwater between the stitches.

  11. The pilot left us when near "the Heads," and the long Pacific waves again tossed our noble ship along with her cutwater pointed homeward.

  12. On sounding now we found thirteen feet as far forward as the fore-swifter, and it was evident we hung by only a few feet of the keel from the cutwater aft.

  13. By and by he saw the sharp cutwater rising several feet above the water, the staff with its drooping flag, and the glass shield just aft of the motor compartment.

  14. The two boys waited for him to return, and during the interval Jerry caught sight of the Cutwater up the lake and watched her progress with interest.

  15. Harry was unconscious, and he was taken to the cabin, where Dora and the other girls did all in their power for him; and then the Cutwater was headed for Lakeview, two miles distant.

  16. The Cutwater was quite a good-sized craft, and though the force of the collision did not damage her to any extent, it checked her progress considerably.

  17. He made a mighty leap and caught hold of the rudder end ere the Cutwater could get beyond his reach.

  18. Blumpo took good care to tell every one of all that had happened, and on every side Jerry was praised for his daring work in saving the Cutwater and his chum.

  19. The Cutwater was a large sloop owned by one of the gentlemen living in Lakeview.

  20. The Cutwater was put on a different track, and they began to move across the lake, it being Jerry’s idea to cross and recross at a distance of every six or seven hundred feet.

  21. The Cutwater was bearing directly down upon them.

  22. He was astride the row-boat, directly in the centre of the bottom, and it seemed as if the prow of the Cutwater must strike him in a second more.

  23. It sent the Cutwater almost over on her side, and threw a monstrous wave into the row-boat.

  24. Once clear, he would bring the bow about and let the cutwater top her wake like a surfboard, keeping him from taking water.

  25. Running downwind, the cutwater on the bow was going to be a real problem.

  26. At the cutwater there remained but the cable end protruding from the hawse-hole.

  27. In the cutwater were holes and openings to let the waves pass through, which afforded an opportunity for gilding and arabesques.

  28. They do not stare up into the fog, trying to distinguish the loom of an on-coming craft; they are able to discern first of all the white line of foam marking the vessel's cutwater kick-up or her wake.

  29. Mr. Cutwater and a few others, moved by the scandal of the dispute, interfered, and the committee was at length constituted to the satisfaction of all parties.

  30. To set the Cutwater in action, the double string must be alternately pulled and slackened.

  31. I crossed to the port rail and stood for a time looking out upon the starlit sea and listening to the sibilant song of the yacht's sharp cutwater as it sheared its way through the gently heaving seas.

  32. The electrically driven boat made no sound other than the purring murmur of its motor and the soft, ripping sheer of the sharp cutwater as it turned a tiny bow wave.

  33. You ought to take a trip up to the cutwater at night and see the flying fish in the phosphorescence.

  34. She circled the deck house six times, then went up to the bow and stared down the cutwater at the phosphorescence.

  35. The Cutwater was quite a good sized craft, and though the force of the collision did not damage her to any extent, it checked her progress considerably.

  36. The Cutwater was put on a different track, and they began to move across the lake, it being Jerry's idea to cross and recross at a distance of every six or seven hundred feet.

  37. Like a knife, the sharp cutwater of the Capella cleft the waves, sending up showers of white spray; but such was her speed that, before the wind could carry the spindrift on deck, the swift vessel was beyond the cascade of foam.

  38. Only the phosphorescent spray from her sharp cutwater marked her position.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cutwater" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.