Taffrails

Some days later the American flag floated over the taffrails of the ❋ Lawrence Perry (1914)

There was a forest of masts where the flat hulls had been, the taffrails and companions were touched up with paint, and the newly-barked nets were being hauled over the quay. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

It would spread about the ship like fire and would be whispered over taffrails, in galleys, and in stokehole. ❋ Unknown (1892)

On none is there any canvas spread; and the unfurled flags do not display their fields, but hang motionless along masts, or droop dead down over taffrails. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Immediately above the village of Sandwich, and in full view of the American Fort, lay the English flotilla at anchor, their white sails half clewed up, their masts decked with gay pendants, and their taffrails with, ensigns that lay drooping over their sterns into the water, as if too indolent to bear up against the coming sultriness of the day. ❋ John Richardson (1824)

This spirited advice was acted upon; the _Royal George_ leading into action, followed by the other ships in such close order that their flying jib-booms were often pointed over the taffrails of their predecessors. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

The French tricolour hardly had time to blow clear from their taffrails, when the English unions waved aloft in defiance; and that Admiral Linois might be more perplexed by the arrangements of the night, three of the most warlike Indiamen displayed the red ensign, while the remainder of the ships hoisted up the blue. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

“Two days without grog,” Nathaniel barked in the man’s direction, and added more patiently to Joss, “I am most sorry to report that taffrails lack gears of any sort, Miss O’Malley.” ❋ Gwyn Cready (2010)

a forest; and the knight-heads, taffrails, gangways, and stretchers of the rigging were garnished with those whose bright buttons, glazed hats, epaulets, and dark-blue dresses denoted to belong to the privileged classes of a ship. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)