What is "fearnought"

Usage examples of "fearnought".

I am apt to do, that youth is like my hunter, Fearnought, and will carry you over everything.

When he reached the plates, still hot beneath his feet, a fire-fighter in a fearnought suit pushed him gently towards the port after corner of the DO room.

It would be some minutes before the apparent confusion resolved itself into a trim, severe pattern, a clean sweep fore and aft, the guns cast loose, their crews standing by them, every man at his station, sentries at the hatchways, damp fearnought screens rigged over the magazines, wet sand strewn over the decks.

The cry of a parson untimely roused came up through the hatchway, where they were laying the fearnought screens and wetting them.

Surprise bore down, therefore, under her fighting-sails, with her master at the con, her guns run out, powder-boys sitting well behind them on their leather cartridge-cases, shot-garlands full, splinter-netting rigged, scuttle-butts all along, decks damped and sanded, and wet fearnought screens over the hatches leading to the magazine far below, where the gunner sat among his little deadly kegs.

Some were sweating in fearnought suits, some dragged hoses, others lumped big wooden spars and wedges.