What is "bulwarks"

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The Biter was alongside the rigging wharf, starboard side to, and almost without a conscious intention he crossed the deck, swung legs across the bulwarks, and clambered down on to the dockside That Sam Holt had betrayed him he would not believe.

CHAPTER 3 The Spouter-Inn Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.

In the midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso, caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe.

All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to.

I, now jumping on the bulwarks, and leaving my comrade standing on the wharf.

Suddenly he came to a halt by the bulwarks, and inserting his bone leg into the auger-hole there, and with one hand grasping a shroud, he ordered Starbuck to send everybody aft.

Outside of the bulwarks their eager crews with one hand clung to the rail, while one foot was expectantly poised on the gunwale.

Many of the ivory inlayings of her bulwarks and cabins were started from their places, by the unnatural dislocation.

Hands go diligently along the bulwarks, and with buckets of water and rags restore them to their full tidiness.

Soon he was carefully swung inside the high bulwarks, and gently landed upon the capstan head.

CHAPTER 121 Midnight - The Forecastle Bulwarks Stubb and Flask mounted on them, and passing additional lashings over the anchors there hanging.

Out of the darkness emerged a darkened ship, not long but bulky, with high bulwarks and high stern.

William missed most of it, as he checked the flaking of the cables with his two men, and saw the anchors loose-lashed on the bulwarks clear to cut and slip if need arose.

As the dockyard pull men manoeuvred her the last few complex yards, unmanageable in a falling tide, they dropped all vestiges of obedience, ignored orders from Gunning or the Navy officers, and perched themselves on the bulwarks and in the chains to get first jump for shore.

He gave the order and the men, with whoops, piled across the bulwarks and down into the boats, still shielded from the vision of the enemy.