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Definition of Taffrails
1. taffrail [n] - See also: taffrail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taffrails
Literary usage of Taffrails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"... setting up the hammocks for the nags to lie in, with a lashing of twisted
straw aft of their after-heels and taffrails, as the wake of a ship might be. ..."
2. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"For we must luff for Falmouth Bay Before to-morrow's tide." The good ship was a
racing yawl, A spare-rigged schooner sloop, Athwart the bows the taffrails ..."
3. The History of the Civil War in America: Comprising a Full and Impartial by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1864)
"... boats,—the first about three-quarters of a mile from Fort Jackson, and the
rest in direct line astern, with bowsprits and taffrails touching each other. ..."
4. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1840)
"... and sheet anchor ; Of lower-deck guns, — and of broadsides and chases, Of
taffrails and topsails, and splicing main-braces, And " Shiver my timbers ! ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"... and the taffrails of some of the war ships. Slowly no the Hudson came the war
ships past (lie commercial district?,and then the residential portion was ..."
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