Nautical lines

Usage examples of earings.

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.