Ranged along the bulkhead of the cabin were several musketoons, pistols, boarding-pikes, and heavy swords known to seamen as cutlasses, while two swivel guns completed the armoury.
In the British navy, swivel pieces are fitted in the first and last lengths of cable, to avoid and, if required, to take out turns in a cable, caused by a ship swinging round when at anchor.
With a ship moored with two anchors, the cables are secured to a mooring swivel (fig.
Lefty, whom Maragon had called Wally Bupp, walked around behind the desk and took the swivel chair that the older man had just vacated.
Wally was leaning back in his swivel chair and wasn't within four feet of the pasteboards.
Ramos was riding a great bale, drawn by his spinning and still accelerating ring, to the hub of which it was attached by a thin steel cable, passed through a well-oiled swivel bolt.
He hung onto Paul's oldswivel chair, in which he was sitting, as if he was suddenly terribly afraid of falling.
A considerable number of the books still bear their chains, which are composed of long flat links closely resembling those at Guildford, with a ring and swivel next to the bar.
There is usually a swivel in the centre, probably to prevent twisting.
The warden sat rotund and impressive, in a swivel chair, holding in his hands a folded-up, blue-backed document.
If it had not been for the massive desk littered with papers and the swivel chair it would not have looked like an office at all.
Emily Grimshaw sat back in her swivel chair and scrutinized Judy.
She strained her ears to hear every word the agent said as she rocked back and forth in her swivel chair.
Tutt, who had tilted backward in his swivel chair, brought both his feet to the floor with a bang.
Mr. Tutt was reclining as usual in his swivel chair, his feet crossed upon the top of his ancient mahogany desk.
The senior partner of Tutt & Tutt wheeled his swivel chair to the window and crossing his congress boots upon the sill gazed contemplatively down upon the shipping.
Then he threw himself down in his swivel chair with a bang.
He saw no one until about nine that morning, when sweeping around a bend he came on a boat containing two men with a swivel gun, after ducks.
Both men were greatly excited and one of them turned the swivel in his direction.
There was a flat-topped desk here, a swivel chair, an armchair, a rather good drawing or two on the walls, and a soft yielding carpet underfoot.
Now set down on that bunk and let me have a look at you," the Cap'n commanded, seating himself in an old swivel chair that creaked and trembled under his weight.
But when they reached the lookout it appeared that he had forgotten again for he sat down in the swivel chair and faced her.
They would look at Isolde much more closely than at the desk and the pens and pencils and the old swivel chair and the faded cushion.
A moment later, up forward, a smallswivel cannon swung from side to side.
If one hundred per cent of all cats are sure to sooner or later turn a button around when in a small box, one cat in a thousand may well escape from a room by accidentally turning a swivel around.
He was one step farther on towards his goal, which was nothing less than becoming a great newspaper proprietor and running the political world from a swivel chair somewhere in Fleet Street.
Mr. Lubbock let himself heavily down into his swivel chair.
The mounting is made to swivel on the tripod head, in order to set the instrument in the meridian.
The clock case carrying the bearing for the polar axis is made to swivel in the base casting, so that the polar axis may be easily set and firmly clamped at an angle from horizontal to vertical.
Mulrennan's been here to see you three times," said the man in the swivel chair.
He pulled out his swivel chair and sat in it, facing her.
That the impression might be the more forcible, the men were all paraded; and the council opened by a discharge from the swivel of the boat.
The Indians who surrounded him drew their arrows from their quivers, and were bending their bows, when the swivel in the large boat was pointed towards them, and twelve of our most determined men jumped into the small boat, and joined Capt.
Then Harry Malcolm called from the quarter-deck in his quiet, quick voice, "The swivel gun is loaden, Tom.
Do you, lads, load the swivel guns and keep always at hand two loaded muskets apiece.
He leaned against the swivel gun on the quarter-deck, and looking down into their faces, smiled disagreeably.
He was still sitting in his swivel writing-chair, turned sideways from the desk so that he could see her face.
The wrench is supported by two L-shaped pieces of iron fastened with [Illustration: A Swivel Bench Vise] a rivet through the end jaw, and these in turn are bolted or screwed to the bench.
The point for the swivel bearing was determined by balancing the bed plate, with all parts in place, across the thin edge of a board.
On reaching the swivel gun he had it unlashed and carefully loaded, adding a ball and a grape shot to the ordinary charge.
Their boats are built very long, raised at the stern, and the largest pulling as many as sixty paddles; but I should not think them fast, and any boat with a swivel might cut them up.
He whirled about in his swivel chair, and blew a cloud of smoke from his mouth.
The Inspector dropped into his swivel chair at the desk whilst he awaited the arrival of Demarest, the District Attorney.
As the cry rose up, the longswivel from the chase rang sharply in our ears, and a tremendous discharge of grape flew through our rigging.
Meanwhile the chase gained rapidly upon us, and before noon we discovered her to be a French letter-of-marque with four guns and a long brassswivel upon the poop deck.
