All 7 Uses of
taut
in
Sea Wolf
- Had there been a steady breeze it would not have been so bad, but the Ghost was rolling emptily in a long sea, and with each roll the canvas flapped and boomed and the halyards slacked and jerked taut.†
Chpt 6
- The halyards became instantly taut.†
Chpt 6 *
- Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew, For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail, We're sagging south on the Long Trail—the trail that is always new.'†
Chpt 7
- Each man felt that he had been robbed; and the boats were hoisted in amid curses, which, if curses had power, would have settled Death Larsen for all eternity—"Dead and damned for a dozen iv eternities," commented Louis, his eyes twinkling up at me as he rested from hauling taut the lashings of his boat.†
Chpt 24
- The boat-puller obeyed, taking a turn around the little forward thwart and paying the line as it jerked taut.†
Chpt 25
- This would not do for a draw-knife, so he laid hold of the running part, hove taut, and made fast.†
Chpt 36
- A derrick-boom, rigged to the foremast, had accomplished this; and several days more found all stays and shrouds in place, and everything set up taut.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
pulled or drawn tight;
or: subjected to great tension
or: subjected to great tension