reeve

There is no sensible connection, and I cannot reeve the two apart.'

Five minutes: time enough to reeve a new halyard or hoist the flag on another one.

Just reeve the halyards through the sheaves and lash them down.

Seamen scrambled up the ratlines to reeve broken lines.

He would just have time to include the topmen before they went aloft to reeve the lines for the grapnels.

"Or bore a hole through a shark's tail, and reeve a rope through it, eh?"

He needed to go up the mast to reeve a new spinnaker halyard and wanted somebody else besides Luis on the winch.

The last to be lifted up, except Thompson, was Benita, round whom it was necessary to reeve a rope.

A seaman did not 'put' a rope through a pulley, he rove it through a block, or he was ordered to reeve it.

The beautifully clean decks stretched away before him, and they were filled with mild, sensible activity as the ex-Defenders were shown how to reeve gun-tackles and house their pieces just so.

Juma wondered in the back of his mind what brought the little man, but his main concentration was on the plug connector he was trying to reeve through a channel made for something a size smaller.

It was said that a Divine Hand guided hers, that hy gazing upon a man, he he reeve or hay ward, she could tell if he were dry nr cold, moist or hot.

We shared the twin chamber and we winked on the one wench and what Sim sobs todie I'll reeve tomorry, for 'twill be, I have hopes of, Sam Dizzier's feedst.