Deadeyes

Word DEADEYES
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Definitions and meanings of "Deadeyes"

What do we mean by deadeyes?

A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.

A very accurate marksman.

A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant.

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The word "deadeyes" in example sentences

It consists of a small line reeved back and forth through the holes in the "deadeyes," _A_; the ends are then seized to the standing rigging to prevent slipping. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Below, Lee Goom and Toyama were lowering skylight covers and screwing up deadeyes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had shown the old-fashioned deadeyes instead of rigging screws and had drawn the wrong kind of gooseneck attaching the boom to the mast. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

Although it's gratifying to think our ancestors so traumatized the redcoats during the Revolution that they still believe we are a nation of deadeyes, most of us would rank an afternoon of shooting hard-kicking slug guns at paper cups somewhere between root canal and hitting a thumb with a hammer. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Besides this, a section of the mainyard that had snapped in two at the slings was still held aloft by the truss, the other end of the spar having brought up, against the chain-plates, the brace being twisted round the shrouds and deadeyes in the most wonderful way! ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)

A close search by the technically expert would have revealed scars of age in the little lady, furrows worn in her sides by grinding ice floes, patches in the sails, strengthening pieces in the cross-trees and sad-looking deadeyes and lanyards which plainly told of a bygone age. ❋ Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans (1918)

A similar method may be used with loops instead of deadeyes (Fig. 99). ❋ Unknown (1912)

A swinging sea-lamp of brightly polished brass gave them light, which in the daytime could be obtained through the four deadeyes, or small round panes of heavy glass which were fitted into the walls of the cabin. ❋ Unknown (1902)

She gave another lurch to leeward; the lower deadeyes dipped heavily; the men's feet flew from under them, and they hung kicking above the slanting poop. ❋ Unknown (1897)

Our standing rigging was of wire, this being lighter, and offering less windage than hemp-rigging of the same strength; but, in order to counteract its rigidity and give play to the spars, we adopted the expedient of connecting the deadeyes to the chain-plates by a bolt and shackle arrangement, interposing a thick india-rubber washer between the shackle and the bolt-head. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

On one side the "Torbay" lay with her fore-top-mast shot away, her sails burnt and scorched, her fore-yard burnt to a coal, and her larboard shrouds, fore and aft, burned to the deadeyes, so that indeed it appeared surprising that she had not been burned altogether. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

RT @deadeyes: Dexia: we're all gonna pay for your mistakes, thank you to the belgian politicians. ❋ Matthew Sparkes (2011)

Whether it was that the first lieutenant wished to have a look round the ship or not, I do not know, but he pulled across the bows, and went round the stern, passing the larboard side: as he passed, Jack shrunk under the lee of the deadeyes and lanyards, hoping he might not be seen; but the first lieutenant, having the clear horizon on the other side, perceived the line which ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

George Dohrmann: Two smaller-school deadeyes debunking charity-stripe cliché ❋ Unknown (2010)

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