slack away

Nor did I slack away till they came down on their knees, begging and pleading with me to keep quiet.

As the schooner paid off, the fore- and main-sheets were slacked away for fair wind.

Presently the courses were loosed and the frigate slacked away to bear off to the east.

"You should have slacked away for Mangareva.

They slacked away again when the price of silver went down, and the ore dwindled in La Golondrina.

The launch headed up into the seas, while the halyards were slacked away and the gaffs passed around to the starboard sides of the masts.

When it had reached the masthead of the Titmouse, Tom slacked away his halyard and a moment later had the parcel in his hands.

Next came a promptitude of bellowed orders, and all the watch was slacking away after braces to starboard and pulling on after braces to port.

Fryer had, of course, seen us coming, and had slacked away until the launch was within half a dozen paces of the beach, in about four feet of water.

Slacking away on the boom-tackle and hoisting an equivalent amount on the shears-tackle, I brought the butt of the mast into position directly over the hole in the deck.

Closer than that, the curve of the planet slacked away from the spire until its end spanned the isthmus of Weggismarche and wedged into another mountain four kilometers from Barometer.

Swiftly some of the men slacked away ropes while others scrambled along the boom to untie the narrow strips of plaited rope holding the gaff and mainsail to the boom.

When the halyards had been slacked away and the yards of our lugsails passed around to the larboard sides of the masts, Bligh bore up to the west, and the men trimmed the sails to the northeast wind.

A veer in the wind induced them to slack off sheets, and five minutes afterward a sudden veer from the opposite quarter caught all three schooners aback, and those on shore could see the boom-tackles being slacked away or cast off on the jump.