Then it was necessary when a ship anchored, that the boarding nettings should be up, and all the arms ready for immediate use.
He will probably be able to tell us whether there are any boarding- nettingsin the ship.
Well, can you tell me whether there are any boarding-nettings in the ship?
The boarding-nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls.
The schooner had her guns run out, her boarding-nettings up, and every other proper precaution was taken to guard against surprise.
So efficient were the nettings and other precautions with which Don John of Austria defended the bulwarks of his ships that he was able to inform Philip II that not a Turk had set foot upon a single deck belonging to his majesty.
The wire-wove mattress is of great advantage both for comfort and for coolness; and here in Australia, during the summer months, proper mosquito nettings are as necessary as the bed itself.
The whole volume of wire rope for nettings was furnished within four months.
The common fence wires are not among the Roebling specialties, but wire nettings are manufactured from a soft variety of basic steel which lends itself to the weaving process with almost the ease of animal and vegetable fibres.
A shower of grape played havoc amongst them, and sank or capsized several of their craft; but they still persevered in their advance, and clung to the vessel's sides and to the boarding-nettings until repelled by cutlass and pistol.
Boarding-nettings she had, too, ready to be triced up in case of need; and altogether she had no occasion to dread any enemy she was at all likely to meet.
A second shot quickly followed, and struck the hammock-nettings on the starboard side, knocking several overboard.
No one was hit, but a hammock and part of the hammock-nettings were knocked away.
British sailors are always ready for that; and directly afterwards the taunt masts and white canvas of the French frigate were seen by those on deck rising above the hammock nettings on the larboard bow.
She looked long but low, and it seemed as if there would be but little difficulty in boarding her; but it was found as they got up to her that stout boarding nettings were triced up all round, though no one was to be seen on her decks.
The schooner appeared to be full of men, with several guns on each side, and boarding nettings fixed up.
For some hours she tore on with her hammock nettings almost in the water; but it was a race for freedom, and what Briton would not undergo any risk for that?
Numbers having, however, already gained the hammock-nettings and rigging, it was no easy matter to dislodge them.
A general order directed spare spars and boats to be landed, the machinery protected, and splinter-nettings placed.
On some ships splinter nettings were rigged inside the bulwarks, and found of advantage in stopping the flight of larger fragments struck out by shot.
All hands were called, and the hammocks stowed in the nettings for the rest of the night, so that no one could lie between blankets.
It seems indispensable to the picturesque effect of the spar-deck, that the hammocks should invariably remain stowed in the nettings between sunrise and sundown.
And the night within the mosquito-nettings was an agony of perspiration.
Take note that we close these nettings the first night a little carelessly, remembering Cuba, and expecting nothing worse.
Do you notice, Mr Gadsby, that she has no nettings triced up on her port side?
The struggle was savage enough, the British hacking at the nettings and trying to clamber up on deck, while the Americans fired their muskets and pistols in the faces of their assailants and thrust the foremost through with their long pikes.
The anchor tore thenettings and grappled the fore-shrouds of the Pigot, enabling the assailants to make a free passage to her deck.
Boarding nettings were triced up round the ship every night, and the watch on deck had arms ready at hand.
Boarding nettings were up, small-arm men were stationed at the bow and stern, and as they drew near the guns opened a hot fire with grape and canister.
At the top of the chimney Jonathan put a netting over half the flues; the others he left open at the top, but set in nettings in the corresponding flues just above each fireplace.
And so in half the chimney the swallows still build, but the young ones now drop on the nettings instead of in the embers, and lie there cheeping shrilly until somehow their parents or friends convey them up again where they belong.
He had also a kedge-anchor, lashed to his jib-boom, with which to tear the nettings of the 'Pigot.
The hammock-nettings between the quarter-deck and forecastle.
To protect them from wet while stowed in the nettings on deck.
Nettings sometimes placed over the hatchways instead of gratings, for security and circulation of air.
Even the camels are draped with long nettings and fringes and tassels that reach from their humps to their heels.
In the afternoon nettings are hung around one of the broad decks and games of cricket are played.
On two occasions men had sprung to the bulwarks, and clung to the boarding-nettings until shot away.
Quietly boarding-nettings were made ready to be spread, the magazines were opened, even buckets of sand were brought and placed about; sand to be used in case the decks became too slippery from the blood.
Mr. Johnson, you will see that the boarding-nettings are spread, and load the midship gun with lagrange and a star shot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nettings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
