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Lexicographical Neighbors of Swifted

Literary usage of Swifted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"The bars of tin- capstan arc swifted, by passing a rope-swifter over all their ... Tho rigging is also swifted down preparatory to replacing tho ratlines ..."

2. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"... with which the rigging was swifted in; and these were used as jury ratlines until we got close upon the coast. After this the ship was scraped, ..."

3. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1869)
"... with which the rigging was swifted in ; and these were used as jury ratlines until we got close upon the coast. ..."

4. Two years before the mast: or, A voice from the forecastle by Richard Henry Dana (1854)
"... taut and straight, that we were obliged to go aloft upon the ropes and shear-poles with which the rigging was swifted in; and these were used as jury ..."

5. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"... with which the rigging was swifted in; and these were used as jury ratlines until we got close upon the coast. After this, the ship was scraped, ..."

6. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"The bars of tin- capstan arc swifted, by passing a rope-swifter over all their ... Tho rigging is also swifted down preparatory to replacing tho ratlines ..."

7. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"... with which the rigging was swifted in; and these were used as jury ratlines until we got close upon the coast. After this the ship was scraped, ..."

8. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1869)
"... with which the rigging was swifted in ; and these were used as jury ratlines until we got close upon the coast. ..."

9. Two years before the mast: or, A voice from the forecastle by Richard Henry Dana (1854)
"... taut and straight, that we were obliged to go aloft upon the ropes and shear-poles with which the rigging was swifted in; and these were used as jury ..."

10. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"... with which the rigging was swifted in; and these were used as jury ratlines until we got close upon the coast. After this, the ship was scraped, ..."

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