Although the rumor soon went the rounds that the giant wave which pooped the ship had carried away two of her six boats, there were no visible signs of flurry in the measures taken to equip the remaining boats for use.
The Kansas might not be pooped again, but she would travel more rapidly into the unknown.
All that day the launch continued to scud before the gale; gettingpooped so often that it was the work of two men to keep her free of water.
Twice they pooped us, and we were up to our waists in icy water, but still held to the wheel for our lives.
This was all in the day's work and happened at the island of Santa Maria, not far from Juan Fernandez, where Captain Delano's Perseverance found the high-pooped Tryal in a desperate state.
But Captain Bob took this full-pooped old packet ship around the Horn and employed her in the China tea trade.
We must shake out this reef, Bob, if it is blowing fresh, so as to go faster before the wind, and not get pooped again.
There, that sea has pooped us, and we are all afloat!
A yacht is said to be pooped when she is struck by a sea that comes on board over the stern or quarter.
But if indeed these matters can be effected at once, and thou wilt bear away the image, and lead me in the fair-pooped ship, the risk will be a glorious one.
At this it may be presumed that Captain Pareira swore a few rounds of crackling oaths in his beard as he strode his high-pooped quarter-deck.
There was a heavy and irregular sea which pooped the ship, and nearly proved her entire ruin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pooped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
