The tow-rope necessarily has to be made fast in the extreme stern, not, as is the case in a properly fitted tug, more or less amidships in the spot where the vessel pivots when turning.
If a small line could be got across from ship to ship, the end of it would be made fast to a coir hawser in the Monsoon.
Of a square sail, either of the lower corners reaching down to where the tacks and sheets are made fast to it; and is that part which comes goring out from the square of the sail.
The strop, or part by which the block is made fast to any particular station, and is usually made either of rope or of iron.
A cut made in a whale between the neck and the fins, to which the cant-purchase is made fast, for turning the animal round in the operation of flensing.
A sort of triangular ring formed on the end of a gammon-plate, for the gammoning lashing or chain to be made fast to.
One arm of each of the knees is upright, and is made fast to the inside of the boat, while the other is horizontal and projects outside it: it is on these horizontal and projecting arms that the roof rests, and to which it is lashed.
Flying Bridges are well known: a long cord or chain of poles is made fast to a rock or an anchor in the middle of a river.
The wheel is made fast to an upright iron shaft that is stepped into an iron oil well at the bottom and inclined at an angle of about fifteen degrees to give the necessary power.
But it is generally conceded that in no case should a colt be made fast in such a way that he could kick himself loose.
They should be about three feet in length, made fast at top and bottom to prevent wear.
This day we made fast to a large iceberg, and the latitude, by observation, was nearly 79°.
Cast off, and made for a large iceberg, one mile to the east, to which we made fast, and were soon after closed in by the ice.
Made fast to an iceberg about seventy yards long and forty broad, and about twenty feet above the surface of the water.
We made fast a line to a heavy boulder and set a watch to fend the 'James Caird' off the rocks of the beach.
At dusk we made fast to a heavy floe, each boat having its painter fastened to a separate hummock in order to avoid collisions in the swell.
The final moorings thus were six hawsers and one cable astern, made fast to the shore anchors, and two anchors with about seventy fathoms of cable out forward.
He got three steel hawsers out and made fastto the shore anchors.
There were four boats in all, the largest being the caravel's pinnace, a craft pulling twelve oars, and the other three boats were made fast in a string behind her.
Ropes were thrown, great hawsers were hauled ashore and made fast to sturdy bollards, fenders were dropped overside, and the Bonaventure was very smartly secured abreast the warehouse which was destined to receive her cargo.
A few seconds later the halyard was made fast, the sheet was trimmed aft, and the boat, with the string of seven in tow astern, began to move slowly and silently up the stream.
Occasionally some harpooner, disbelieving tradition, made fast to a finner, and experienced that sensation which the vaquero found when he lassoed the Mexican State Express.
The horse draws from the fore-end of the shafts, to which his collar is made fast by a six-inch trace and a toggle.
When the sail was hoisted, the halliards and the down-haul were brought well aft and made fast to a thwart to serve as backstay.
At length the ship was with difficulty made fast to a strip of land-ice a few miles westward of Point Osborn.
The fog overtook us yesterday evening, and at length, unable to see our way, we made fast at eleven o'clock to the ice.
Under these circumstances the ship was made fast as near to the nip as safety permitted, to await some favorable change.
The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.
A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered.
That part of a tackle which is made fast to a block, point, or other object.
In the middle of that bed a smooth cake or flat disc of very soft iron, about 1 inch thick, and 3 or 4 inches in diameter, is made fast by four horizontal adjusting screws, that work in studs of the bed frame.
Across the middle of this board, and parallel to the pieces k k, the tongue piece m, is made fast, which fits into a groove in the bottom of board l.
The upper branch of the lever o is made fastby screws and bolts at p, to the upper press-cylinder.
The mast will rise into place, where it is made fast.
The line is placed in the notch at E and pulled up until the sail sets properly, when it is made fastto a cleat or to a cross-piece at F.
The free end of the knot is made fast by binding it to the "bight," or the loop.
One end of the line is supposed to be made fast to some object.
In the end I got up a big iron cinder-bucket that I filled with coal--making sure that the coal would stay in it by lashing a piece of canvas over the top--and this I made fast to the bundle by a rope three or four fathoms long.
This message he made fast to the neck, and hid within the plumage of a swan that was long his, and was greatly to his heart.
He came down from the tower, in doubt and sore trouble, bidding that the gates should be made fast, and that men should mount upon the walls.
The chain was soon 'up and down,' and the foresail was hoisted and made fast to the rigging with a bowline.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "made fast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
