Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattlins
Literary usage of Rattlins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana, Charles Welsh (1907)
"... the lower and top-mast rigging rattled down, (or, up, as the fashion now is;)
and so careful were our officers to keep the rattlins taught and straight, ..."
2. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana, Charles Welsh (1907)
"... the lower and top-mast rigging rattled down, (or, up, as the fashion now is;)
and so careful were our officers to keep the rattlins taught and straight, ..."
3. Two years before the mast: or, A voice from the forecastle by Richard Henry Dana (1854)
"... and so careful were our officers to keep the rattlins taut and straight, that
we were obliged to go aloft upon the ropes and shear-poles with which the ..."
4. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"... the lower and top-mast rigging rattled down (or up, as the fashion now is);
and so careful were our officers to keep the rattlins taught and straight, ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... the lower and top-mast rigging rattled down, (or up, as the fashion now is;)
and so careful were our officers to keep the rattlins taught and straight, ..."
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