There's Davit Lunan 'at can speak like as if he had learned it aff a paper, an' yet I canna thole 'im.
If they dinna want me to their burals,' Davit says, 'they hae nae mair to do than to say sae.
Davit gaed doon to see if he was aye there after supper-time, but he was gone.
So, so, an' did Davit Lunan mak oot 'at there was humour in that?
Thae was the very words Davit said to me as we watched the hearse frae the sky-licht.
Davit would lauch 'at the grandest thochts, whaur they only fill the true humorist wi' awe.
Jean Whamond got a pound note for saying that Jeames's wife had an uncommon pretty voice, and Davit Lunan had ten shillings for a judicious word about her attractive manners.
Some of the mourners were dragging the plank over the wall, with Davit Lunan on the top directing them, when they seem to have let go and sent the tinsmith suddenly into the air.
This was proved by Davit Lunan, tinsmith, whom I have heard tell the story.
Davit Lunan got behind his handkerchief to think for a moment, and the minister was on him like a tiger.
The mustard-seed of a feud between the two parishes shot into a tall tree in a single night, when Davit Lunan's father went to a tattie roup at Tilliedrum and thoughtlessly died there.
Davit was as truthful as a man who tells the same story more than once can be expected to be, and it is far from a suspicious circumstance that he did not remember seeing the school-house all at once.
Preserve us a', what's yon on Davit Armitt's riggin'?
The lashing which secures the davit to the shrouds when out of use.
The word was "Hurry," now that the final decision had been given, and the davit tackles squeaked out as the lifeboat jerked down toward the water.
He waited till the swirl of a sea swung his boat under one of the dangling davit falls, and caught hold of it, and climbed nimbly on board.
When one of the iron davits of the quarter boat was bent by a collision, he extemporised a forge with some pig ballast, on deck, and, though the planks beneath were somewhat scorched, he rendered the davit again effective.
Davit was as truthful as a man who tells the same story more than once can be expected to be, and it is far from a suspicious circumstance that he did not remember seeing the schoolhouse all at once.
A closet-bed with the door off afforded seats for several persons; and Davit Lunan, the tinsmith, who could read Homer with Rob in the original, sat clumsily on the dresser.
I mind when Jeames Gowrie speired me: "Ye wud raither hae Davit Curly, I ken," he says.
It is the duty of the chief mate to see all ready forward for getting under way; the rigging fair for making sail, the cat and fish-tackles rove, and the fish-davit at hand.
Rig out your fish-davit across the forecastle, and put the bight of the pennant into the sheave-hole.
The pigs were housed forward on the main deck, and the other offerings were piled on the rigging and hammock nettings and about the davit guys, so that the ship looked like an agricultural show when we sailed for Panama.
The admiral's staff should always inform him of such matters as boats pulling badly, or not being run up to the davit head, men not standing properly to attention, or not doubling to obey all orders of the pipe, etc.
Amidships on our side of the yacht the davit falls by which the long-boat had been lowered were still hanging as they had been left when the boat was put overside.
We could see the electric motor launch hanging in its davit tackle on the starboard side, but there was no move made to lower it.
I intended to let go the rope the moment the weight attached to it was safely in the sea, and so lowered away silently, paying out the line without excessive strain owing to the support of the davit round which I had wound it.
The moment our boat was made fast to the steamer's davit ropes and we were pulled out of the water, "full speed ahead" was rung from the bridge.
Now, Mr Forbes, are you ready with thedavit tackles?
He had lashings on the anchors and fresh wedges to the battens of all hatches; the winches chocked off and covered over and new pins in the davit blocks.
Her boats were gone; a davit stuck up at the end of the poop crumpled like a ram's horn; and by the taffrail her worn and sodden crew clustered and cheered the Burdock.
She canted clear of the groove in the chocks as they swung the forward davit out and the Captain stepped abaft the men who hauled.
Another shell, fired almost directly afterwards, struck the davit of the port forward boat, cutting it completely in half.
One of the shells, bursting directly behind the funnel, struck the davit of the after lifeboat, which was now full of men and in the very act of being lowered.
He could not reach the davit iron from where he hung; the schooner's rail was too far away, though he kicked his feet in that direction.
Their knives were out--not for attack on their superiors, but to slash away the davit tackle.
Overhaul, overhaul, on your davit tackle fall, And launch your boats to the sea, Brave boys!
The davit swung inward slowly, and he managed to slide his legs up over the rail and gain the deck.
But as it went Mayo clutched a davit pulley and swung in midair.
In spite of the efforts of the captain and his helpers the sailors succeeded in slashing away the davit tackle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "davit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: companion; hoist; parts; ship
