Hook a rolling-tackle on the opposite side of the yard, bowse it well taut, and the trusses also, if they be of rope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

"I'se spec 'you'll help, Massa Bosun," hinted the darky cook in an obsequious way; "you clebber man, Massa Moggridge, an 'knows how to bowse tings up.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

"Come, Ernest, bowse away on the bobstay," cried Ellis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernest Bracebridge School Days] Reference

'Come, come! move, move! and bowse this timber forward.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman] Reference

"Come, come! move, move! and bowse this timber forward.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave,] Reference

Good evening, my mumpers; make your bows to this gentleman who has come to bowse with us to-night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Disowned — Complete] Reference

When this was explained to Sir Samuel Hood, he ordered the people in the launch to bowse away at the buoy-rope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lieutenant and Commander]

You may let the chimnyes be all the breadth of the howse, if you thinke good; the 2 lower dores to be in the middle of the bowse, one opposite to the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

Our spirits returned with having something to do; and when the tackle was manned to bowse the anchor home, notwithstanding the desolation of the scene, we struck up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

They being vncivill & barbarous, & the Old Queen (especially) time - rous, we condiscended to meete tbem all neere the great pond, at least 10 mile froqi Mr. Smiths bowse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

All hands were now employed in setting up the lee rigging, fishing the spritsail yard, lashing the galley, and getting tackles upon the martingale, to bowse it to windward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

All hands were now employed in setting up the lee rigging, fishing the spritsail-yard, lashing the galley, and getting tackles upon the martingale, to bowse it to windward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

Just bowse it up to wind'ard as far as it will go, and let us see what it will do. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference

"Very true, old gentleman; Tom and I did bowse our jibs up a little too taut when we last met -- but what then?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob Faithful] Reference

This is bien bowse, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference

Of this I'll bowse to you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference

Sup and bowse from horn and can.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keats: Poems Published in 1820] Reference

Sup and bowse with horn and can.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

We’ll bowse about till Daddie Care.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata] Reference

And bowse in defiance o 'the Harman Beck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference

Brace about -- bowse away there! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Bartlemy's Treasure] Reference