Masting

Bring on your ipsilateral translation of the condyle, your girt lines and masting falls! ❋ Unknown (2006)

Members of the Privy Council are honoured by half-masting of the flag on the Peace Tower of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa when they die. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Par-buckle them in with their heads aft on the poop, and get the fore and main runners on them for guys; lash on two four-fold blocks, reeve the masting-falls, get girt-lines on the head of the sheers to steady the mast-head, and put heel-lashings on the sheers. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But long cranes, used for masting vessels, were reared on the summit of the ramparts; and from them there descended some of those enormous pincers which terminated in two semicircles toothed on the inside. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Here and there were wharves perfectly bare, not only of masting and of freight, but even of dust, as if they had not been used for days, or possibly for weeks. ❋ Various (N/A)

The proportions for the length of spars are based upon the masting rules given by M'Kay [23] in 1839. ❋ Howard Irving Chapelle (N/A)

Next, the mast positions were decided by prorating from the plan of the _Ohio_ the position of each mast from the fore perpendicular and then modifying these positions slightly by use of masting rules contained in M'Kay's book [20] of 1839. ❋ Howard Irving Chapelle (N/A)

With what seemed startling suddenness the prince's vital powers collapsed, and the half masting of flags, far and wide, told to friend and foe the tidings of the Queen's irreparable loss. ❋ Edward P. Lowry (N/A)

The statement that the cedar is unsuitable for masting rests on insufficient observation; in dense growths trees suitable for masts are not uncommon. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

There seemed to be no limit to the knowledge these men possessed of the masting-business, and they vied with one another in telling what they knew. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Both these bounties continued without any variation, at the same rate, till they were severally allowed to expire; that upon hemp on the 1st of January 1741, and that upon masting-timber at the end of the session of parliament immediately following the 24th June 1781. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The bounty, however, of one pound the ton upon masting-timber, and that of six pounds the ton upon hemp, were extended to such as should be imported into England from Scotland. ❋ Unknown (1909)

In half-masting a flag, you first hoist it in a bundle to the masthead, break it out there, and thence lower it to the position at which you make fast. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

As for furs, feathers, and a fishery, we may challenge any province in America to produce the like, and beside that here is a good grainery; masting and naval stores might be provided hence. ❋ Unknown (1898)

It was a fine period in ship - building, and also, I might say, a period of over-masting. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)

When I had last seen her she was under the masting-shears getting her lower-masts stepped; and it then struck me that they were fitting her with rather heavy spars. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

She had been launched flying light, and then had been hauled under the masting-sheers to have her three lower-masts stepped, after which it had been necessary to move her to another part of the basin in order to make way for another ship. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

Outside, her cuirass shows no deep scars, for the shattered plates have been replaced; -- but my guide points proudly to the numerous patchings of the decks, the steel masting supporting the fighting-tops, the smoke-stack, -- and to certain terrible dents, with small cracks radiating from them, in the foot-thick steel of the barbette. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

I do not know how far the masting was consonant to his wishes. ❋ Unknown (1877)

Greenish-grey in hue, they looked more solid now, and even more colossal with their prodigious masting of columns upholding an endless expanse of roofs. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)