Usage examples (5)

• Gold has never been that high and silver last was at that kevel in 1980 when the Hunt Brothers of Texas tried to corner the market with a 200 million oz stockpile.
• I crept out of the port into the chains and passed it round the lugger's mainmast, as he told me, handing in the bight to him, which he belayed slack to the mainsheet kevel.
• I crept out of the port into the chains and passed it round the lugger's main-mast, as he told me, handing in the bight to him, which he belayed slack to the main-sheet...
• We walked forward into the bows, and clearly made out the shape of a grapnel thick with shells, with its claws upon the bulwark rail of the half-ship alongside, and there was a...