54 examples of belaying in sentences

In a moment more he had shaken them off; and before I could intervene, he had seized a belaying pin in either hand, and was hazing them up and down the deck.

But being angry, and perhaps a little scared, I beat him to his quarters with a belaying pin.

"Hazed him to his quarters with a belaying pin.

The sheets were jerking at the belaying-pins, the blocks rattling in sharp snappings like castanets.

"We'll do well enough; some of you have your sheath knives yet, and the rest can use belaying pins, and capstan bars.

The next moment some one struck him upon the head with a belaying-pin or a billet of wood, a blow so crushing that the darkness seemed to split asunder with a prodigious flaming of lights and a myriad of circling stars, which presently disappeared into the profound and utter darkness of insensibility.

Had they discovered what had happened to the foreman of the stokers whom Heatherbloom had struck down with a heavy iron belaying-pin?

Some have friends who would rescue them, if they could; others have no friend, no home, no nationality even, the pariahs of the sea, sullen, stupid, and broken-down, burnt-out shells of men, which the belaying-pin of some brutal or passionate mate crushes into sudden collapse, or which the hospital duly consigns to the potter's field.

"What about that man of mine who threw a belaying-pin at me?" The harbour-master quailed at the challenge.

"What about that man of mine who threw a belaying-pin at me?" The harbour-master quailed at the challenge.

The stoutest hold their breath, and if they can't do that, they hold to a belaying-pin, while the awe-stricken crew in vain attempt to pump out the hold.

The poverty of India has for a good many years been a handy weapon, like the sailor's belaying pin, for everyone who wanted to "have at" our administration of that country; and if "a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies," then this one must be as black as Tartarus, for it is indubitably more than half a truth.

Making a hasty search in the dark, I found a broken knife and an iron belaying-pin.

With the handle of the belaying-pin gripped in one hand, and the knife in the pocket of my nankeen jacket ready for an emergency, I felt my way along the port side toward the foot of the companion, determined to get out of the stinking hole and try my chances in the open.

But I determined that I might as well fight there as anywhere else, and, bracing myself against the bunks, I drew my knife and raised the belaying-pin, prepared to begin the attack as soon as my visitor got within reach.

I stooped and groped for the belaying-pin.

I raged, testing the weight of the belaying-pin.

I tore off my jacket and started for the scuttle with the belaying-pin gripped in my hand, bent on battering down the barrier which kept us from the upper deck.

Finally we heard Riggs hammering at the charred board with the belaying-pin.

Belay, belayed or belaid, belaying, belayed or belaid.

If you come out before I give the word it's a belaying pin for you.

Why should the captain threaten him with a belaying pin if he did not stay in the cook's galley for two days?

We call 'em ropes' ends, or cat-o'-nine-tails, or a belaying-pin.

The sailors were clustered around the boats, some clinging to the davits and others lashed to belaying pins, exhausted by long labor, want of sleep, and constant soakings, but ready to fight for life to the last.

If a chap managed to dodge the cap'en's belaying-pin for a time he was bound to be fetched up in the ribs at last by the mate's boots.

54 examples of  belaying  in sentences