In this way a small eyelet at each place was scorched so that the marlinspike could be worked through, and by reaming it a little, soon had the eyelet-holes all completed.
To put a marlinspike in a man's hand and set him to work upon a piece of rigging, is considered a fair trial of his qualities as an able seaman.
It is generally while in the grade of ordinary seaman that the use of the marlinspike is learned.
Lay this bight back over the standing part, putting the marlinspike down through the bight, under the standing part, and up through the bight again.
With this difference, that I proposed to substitute, for the present at least, a marlinspike for the sword.
In fancy's eye, I saw a marlinspike where Macbeth saw the dagger, and snuffed the fragrance of a tar-bucket in every breeze.
Let it blow harder,' answers the lady; and you might have supposed it was a boatswain's mate who'd swallowed a marlinspike who spoke.
Why, sir, if she isn't that rascally craft which attacked us, she is as like her as one marlinspike is to another!
The marlinspikesank and sank until it had drawn with it 130 fathoms of thread.
First themarlinspike was sent down with the thread as a line.
He knew what a marlinspike was from having seen the men use the sharp-pointed irons to pick apart the strands of rope preparatory to splicing, so, anxious to be of service, he hurried to Captain Spark's cabin.
A left-handed marlinspike turns into a scuttle-butt, and that turns into a water barrel.
Frank; and in a moment he had leaped fearlessly amidst the throng--with the marlinspike fortunately still in his hand, for he was otherwise weaponless.
Harris smiled more than ever, and turned the marlinspike about in his hands, looking a little foolish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marlinspike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
