A rope was lowered with a hook upon the end of it; to the hook a canvas bag was lashed with marline.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs] Reference

If he thinks there's even a chance you're going to lay for him with a marline spike, he'll back off of you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Magic]

And it was inconceivable that she would have gone - the Charlotte Meiner I knew would have clobbered you over the head with a marline spike.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Eight Bells Toll]

The course of instruction embraces a short review of arithmetic, grammar, and geography, a thorough drill in marline-spikework, handling sails, boats, oars, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

That ar marline spike didn't hurt his weather eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Killykinick] Reference

Two or three knives, a spoon, a bit of hoop-iron, and a marline spike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions] Reference

Did n't I hit Bill, the bos'n, with a marline-spike -- jest afore he woke up?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates] Reference

Perhaps it was put on a shelf with his knives and forks and a few marline-spikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders] Reference

He was probably the only thorough marline-spike seaman in the ship, before the mast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

The wire used was generally as thick as sailor's marline stuff, or two twisted rope-yarns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Front Line] Reference

Then divide the strands, taper them down, and whip the whole with yarn or marline (Fig. 94).    From Wordnik.com.  [Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise] Reference

Why, I've know'd him, off and on, since he was the length of a marline spike, d'ye see -- an '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lifeboat] Reference

Well, no matter; the Captain shall bring his marline-spike along some day, and help you bag them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors] Reference

The man with the red hair fished among a pile of wire rope, and picked out a small marline-spike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Green Ray] Reference

Dan cleared the table and washed the dishes with a celerity bewildering to the slow brain dulled by the marline spike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Killykinick] Reference

Neb ain't much good for navigating since he got that hit with the marline spike, but for a watch on ship or shore he is all right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Killykinick] Reference

Then he lifted a large stone, held the marline-spike on the wooden planking of the landing-stage, and hammered it in with the stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Green Ray] Reference

A frame is made after the manner of a saw-horse, with a double top, and tarred or marline twine is used for securing the strands of straw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference

The captain found fault with everything this man did, and hazed him for dropping a marline-spike from the main-yard, where he was at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

As I kept passing and repassing the filling or woof of marline between the long yarns of the warp, using my own hand for the shuttle, and as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

Old Rough-and-Ready was in his true element, with a marline-spike hung round his neck, directing everywhere, and working away with his own hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paddy Finn] Reference

I put a bunch of candles in my pocket -- they were as hard as a parcel of marline-spikes -- and took the lanthorn into the passage and inspected the next room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frozen Pirate] Reference

Moreover, there were such formidable makeshift weapons as capstan-bars, marline-spikes, belaying-pins, and other instruments accessible to them at a moment's notice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron] Reference

By his side was a boy of about twelve years of age, dressed in flushing coat and sou'wester, busily employed with a marline-spike, in splicing an eye to a rope's-end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Penguyne Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast] Reference

The next point to be considered is, that all the "small stuffs" which are used on board a ship -- such as spun-yarn, marline, seizing-stuff, etc. -- are made on board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

London, and told them about the disaster, and although we have no doubt he was handier with the marline-spike than with his pen, some of his badly spelled letter reads well.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Gallant, Good Riou", and Jack Renton 1901] Reference