All 6 Uses of
wrought
in
Moby Dick
- As a carpenter's nails are divided into wrought nails and cut nails; so mankind may be similarly divided.†
Chpt 25-27
- Little Flask was one of the wrought ones; made to clinch tight and last long.†
Chpt 25-27
- And all these subtle agencies, more and more they wrought on Ahab's texture.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure.†
Chpt 55-57
- He averred, that upon first thrusting in for him, a leg was presented; but well knowing that that was not as it ought to be, and might occasion great trouble;—he had thrust back the leg, and by a dexterous heave and toss, had wrought a somerset upon the Indian; so that with the next trial, he came forth in the good old way—head foremost.†
Chpt 76-78
- "Heart of wrought steel!" murmured Starbuck gazing over the side, and following with his eyes the receding boat—"canst thou yet ring boldly to that sight?†
Chpt 133-135
Definition:
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(wrought as in: wrought iron) worked -- as when iron is shaped to fit by bending or beating