What is "taffrail"

Usage examples of "taffrail".

She dropped from the taffrail, ran to the binnacle and picked up the tumbler she had left at its foot.

She was now armed with eight brass guns, of a calibre of six pounds each, four howitzers aft, and two cohorns on the taffrail.

Cuffe, Griffin, and the two Italians descended from the taffrail and awaited the approach of the supposed lazzarone or boatman of Capri, as he was now believed to be, near the stern of the vessel.

Pantellaria before the levanter, in its turn, died in half a dozen sullen howls: the two surgeons contemplated the shore and the little fishing port from the taffrail.

As soon as they saw him looming in the dim glow of the hatchway the master and young Ricketts moved silently over to the larboard side, and Jack resumed his solitary pacing from the taffrail to the aftermost deadeye.

The their apparent to the Wisser fortunes guided her by the elbow to his small group gathered around the taffrail at the stern of the ship.

The preparations to show the ensign, which caught the quick and understanding glance of Ghita, and which had not escaped even the duller vision of the artillerists, were made at the outer end of this jigger-yard, A boy appeared on the taffrail, and he was evidently clearing the ensign-halyards for that purpose.

Before Florian or Schilz could express astonishment or anything else, one of the antipodists leapt lithely to the taffrail.

The Neapolitan ran to the taffrail, and the last he saw of Jacopo, the Bravo, was rowing leisurely back towards that scene of violence and deception from which he himself was so glad to have escaped.

Many of them went forward, perching upon the headrails or running out upon the bowsprit, while others seated themselves upon the taffrail, or reclined at full length upon the boats.

Outward bound, and off the pitch of Cape Horn, he used to sit on the taffrail, and keep the steward loading three or four old fowling pieces, with which he would bring down albatrosses, Cape pigeons, jays, petrels, and divers other marine fowl, who followed chattering in our wake.

Weldon, Nan, and even Cousin Benedict leaned over the starboard taffrails, eager to get a glimpse of what had thus suddenly attracted the attention of the young apprentice.

Those evenings by the taffrail came to an imperceptible end, and the Lydia thrashed aloug through half a gale, and it grew steadily colder, even though this was the Antipodean summer.

Before Florian or Schilz could express astonishment or anything else, one of the antipodists leapt lithely to the taffrail.

Why here, sir, the men washing the decks have found your carving-knife abaft, by the taffrail.