Sail line

Usage examples of earing.

Aunt Sarah had got her best earings and her dolman with beeds and Keene and Cele had on their bronze boots and there plad dresses and they got a seet on the platform.

The new canvas was laid out on the deck, the sheets already reeved into the clews and earing cringles, but it took an hour Of hard, dangerous work before her white canvas was brought down and stowed away, and the sails that were daubed with pitch were hoist to the yards and unfurled.

The new canvas was laid out on the deck, the sheets already reeved into the clews and earing cringles, but it took an hour Of hard, dangerous work before her white canvas was brought down and stowed away, and the sails that were daubed with pitch were hoist to the yards and unfurled.

Short hair—short to the point of a crew cut, were it not for the longer fringes around her face and neck—jangling earings, and a filmy black top over a long purple skirt.

Short hair—short to the point of a crew cut, were it not for the longer fringes around her face and neck—jangling earings, and a filmy black top over a long purple skirt.

It wasn't so much the cute boy with the earings and blond hair and designer jeans that turned their heads -- although he got a wolf-whistle from Bernice -- but his companion who stunned them.

Many a watch had been spent in sending up preventer backstays, braces, shrouds and stays and in attending to new earings, robands, reef-points, reef-tackles for the courses and spilling-lines for the topsails, to say nothing of new sheets and clewlines fore and aft.

Pigot's floggings were so dreaded that the two hands farthest out, at the weather and lee earings, on the yardarm itself, leapt over the inner men to reach the backstays or shrouds, their downward path, missed their hold and fell to the quarterdeck.