There, we are all right now," said Lawry, after he had tried the marlinespike several times to satisfy himself that it could be easily drawn from its place.
The marlinespike was thoroughly greased, and a small line attached to the head of it, so that it could be easily drawn out of the loop, when the cask had been secured to the hull of the steamer.
The marlinespikewas not found; but he took from the cook a long meat-knife, and brought both negro and knife forward to me.
He threw down a marlinespike at something moving in the bow.
Burns, on watch at the companionway, ran forward with his revolver, and narrowly escaped being brained--Adams at that moment flinging down a marlinespike that he had carried aloft with him.
It was entirely possible, we agreed, that the marlinespike had been so disposed, as some seaman's resort in time of need.
A splintered board showed where it had struck, and a smaller indentation where it had rebounded; but the marlinespikewas gone, and Burns had not seen it.
Afterwards we found a marlinespike hanging over the ship's side by a lanyard.
The missing marlinespike was swinging there, banging against the hull with every roll of the ship.
He was awakened to speech by the striking of the ship's bell forward when the lookout lifted a marlinespike from the belfry and chimed two short strokes, repeated by two more.
The ship's bell was struck with a muffled marlinespike as Stirling stood in patient idleness.
That shover man let out a hair-raisin' yell, hauled the nickel marlinespike over in its rack, and squeezed a rubber bag that was spliced to the steerin' wheel.
Davis didn't like to see them taking it easy in this fashion, so, catching hold of a marlinespike which someone had left on top of the cabin skylight, he began rapping the rail at the break of the poop with it.
As easily as you can distinguish a marlinespike from a capstan-bar," answered Captain Miles.
He released his daughter, yanked the marlinespike away from Otie, who had been holding himself in the background as a reserve force, and stamped to the rail.
Otie recovered hismarlinespike and began to pound the eye-bolt.
But the engineer had thrown in his clutch and the speed boat foamed off before the captain got the range, and he was too thrifty to heave a perfectly good marlinespike after a target he could not hit, angry as he was.
But the most uncomfortable feature of his predicament was a marlinespike which was stuck into his mouth like a bit provided for a fractious horse, and was secured by lashings behind his head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marlinespike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bar; beam; boom; crank; crow; crowbar; equipment; instrument; lever; limb; pedal; point; prize; spar; treadle
