For there she sat, with her inboardprops turning slowly in the sun, and her name painted clear on the fuselage.
At the same moment a Malay seized the pirate by an ear, another grasped him by an arm, and he was quickly hauled inboard and bound.
When lying down, the heads of the two outer ranks touched the sides of the ship, their feet pointing inboard or athwart the vessel.
At frequent intervals copious quantities of spray would be flung inboard as her bows plunged into the long swell.
Promptly the Sub obeyed, yet as he did so he almost involuntarily crouched under the lee side of the "tin" dinghy that was hanging inboard from the davits.
Over her starboard side a weird contraption of wires was lowered, the wires terminating in submerged metal plates, while inboard they led to a complicated device known as a hydrophone.
Ropes passing over pulleys to a windlass in the after compartment were attached to the inboard end, and by turning the windlass the pole was drawn backwards or forwards as required.
With the safety key in, there is no danger in hoisting it inboard again by its own tow rope, and hoisting up the buoys at the same time with a grapnel.
With his colleague, the commander puts off to the wreck, to assess the prospects, and we have opportunity to note the inboard trim of her derelict posts and quarters.
After that, three days to get the casks inboard again and stowed below.
Nat as the men came inboard with their shower of fish.
This is a piece of broom-handle, to the end of which a stout, sharp hook is attached, and the instrument is used in landing fish which are too heavy to swing inboard on the slender fishing-line.
I think I could lift the boom inboard if I could only get aboard there.
They were about half a mile out from the nearest line of reefs, floating idly on the long swells, with the sails flapping and the boom swinging inboard in annoying fashion.
They hoisted the shred of sail, hauled the boom inboard so that it was as nearly on a line with the keel as they could bring it, and lashed it securely.
Hailing the crew, I swam after the boat; and as I reached her, I was suddenly hoisted bodily inboard by the slack of my breeches.
Gurney and Saunders hove their rope's-ends fair into the boat; but there was no need for them, the ship was bowed so steeply that the occupants were able to seize her rail and scramble inboard unaided.
This job he began the first thing in the morning, swinging her inboard and lowering her to the deck for his greater convenience during the progress of the work.
The first thing done was to get up on deck two good stout warps, and bend them end to end, so that we might have plenty of length to work with; and the inner end of this long line was then made fast inboard at the fore-rigging.
For a moment he stood looking after the smiling faces and waving caps and then turned inboardwith a sigh.
If the ballast is stowed inboard (lead ballast is presumed in all the cases), and the displacement permits, the sail-area may be 800 square feet.
They are not safe in the davits on an ocean voyage, and two of them carried inboard completely block the deck amidships; but a yacht of 500 tons or more can perfectly carry both, if a steam launch is considered necessary.
The inboard end of the cable was not shackled; but to prevent its being able to take charge and run out, an indicator was placed on the bulkhead nearest to the cable tier.
Defn: That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock.
Defn: To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
Defn: From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke.
To miss the regular time of the stroke was dangerous, for the long oars projecting far inboardwould knock down and injure the nearest rowers, unless all swung accurately together.
The said green and red side-lights shall be fitted with inboard screens, projecting at least three feet forward from the light, so as to prevent these lights from being seen across the bow.
It is set up by means of a small pulley, the end of the rope coming inboard through a sheave in the boom, or one fastened to its side.
It is too late to try and struggle back again: the bodies are all in the wrong position to be able to turn around inboard towards the centre of the boat.
Thank goodness, it broke away before it had knocked a hole in our bottom, floating up and threatening to come inboard on the top of the next wave.
Presently our new pinnace arrived, and as soon as she was hoisted inboard we went to sea again.
Presently gang-planks were placed between the inboard lighters and the deck, and the natives filled little baskets with coal, balanced them on their heads, ran up the gang-planks and tipped the coal into the bunkers.
The master of the mission smack went to the side and held out his hand, which David Bright grasped with his right, grappling the smack's rail at the same time with his left, and vaulted inboard with a hearty salutation.
Another method was to bring the stem-piece around the stem head and down and around outboard to the inboard face of the stem, where the end was split and each half lashed to the sides of the stem-piece.
The end lashing shown seems to be in groups and the bottom, for a little distance inboard of the stems, is also shown as lashed.
In most of the canoes examined the top of the stem then rounded inboard in a quick, hard curve, usually almost half a circle, so that the stem was turned downward as it joined the outwale and gunwale cap.
The forward portion of that side would then be covered by a single large panel or perhaps two, so that the horizontal seam on that side would run from the stem aft to the inboard end of the foredeck and would be just above the chine.
In one known example having such thwarts, there were two very short thwarts at the ends of the canoe, of the usual plain form described earlier, each a few inches inboard of the headboard.
The middle thwart was usually formed with a shoulder, viewed in plan, that started 6 or 7 inches inboard of the inside face of the main gunwale.
The turns pass alternately from outboard around the inboard face of the stem-piece and through it; the awl inserted in the laminations from one side opens them enough to allow the strand to be forced through.
In one canoe there was a thwart amidships and one at one end, about halfway between the middle thwart and the gunwale ends; at the other end were two cross ties, one replacing the thwart and another a foot inboardof the ends of the gunwales.
The crimps were commonly located a fourth to a fifth the length of the canoe inboard of the ends, about where the end thwarts would be located.
The ends of the outwales and caps were thus 3 or 4 inches inboard of the extremities.
The deck extended inboard far enough to just cover the end thwart, to which, in the example seen, it was lashed with four simple in-and-out passes of rawhide thong.
The lower outboard corner was beveled to take the ends of the ribs, as shown on page 71, and the lower inboard corner was also beveled or rounded, but to a lesser degree.
With plank stem-pieces the ends of the bark cover were slightly inboard of the cutwater line, sometimes protected by a rabbet.
Immediately afterwards three high explosive shells came inboard on the upper deck, and bursting there killed 7 men and wounded 16.
Upon being severed the whole piece swung easilyinboard and was lowered on deck.
Dan passed Harvey a pitchfork, and led him to the inboard end of the rough table, where Uncle Salters was drumming impatiently with a knife-haft.
He had no time to protest, but was hove inboard and treated like "Pennsylvania.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
