Lexicographical Neighbors of Swifters
Literary usage of Swifters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Kedge-anchor; Or, Young Sailors' Assistant: Or, Young Sailors' Assistant by William N. Brady (1864)
"Girt the rigging with three fore and aft swifters—one by the shear rail, ...
Sometimes swifters are not used, but the ratlines are never so square, ..."
2. The Kedge-anchor, Or, Young Sailors' Assistant: Appertaining Tothe Practical by William N. Brady (1882)
"Girt the rigging with three fore and aft swifters—one by the shear rail, ...
Two swifters on each side are suflicient for the topmast rigging. ..."
3. Wooden Shipbuilding: A Comprehensive Manual for Wooden Shipbuilders, to edited by William John Thompson (1918)
"Swallow.— The space or opening in a block which takes the rope before it passes
over the sheave. swifters.— The forward shrouds of a lower mast on the port ..."
4. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"... the falls of the swifters—half-worne ; the pennants of the swifters—half-worne ;
the backe- stayes—decayed—xvii fa ..."
5. The Kedge-anchor; Or, Young Sailors' Assistant: Or, Young Sailors' Assistant by William N. Brady (1864)
"Girt the rigging with three fore and aft swifters—one by the shear rail, ...
Sometimes swifters are not used, but the ratlines are never so square, ..."
6. The Kedge-anchor, Or, Young Sailors' Assistant: Appertaining Tothe Practical by William N. Brady (1882)
"Girt the rigging with three fore and aft swifters—one by the shear rail, ...
Two swifters on each side are suflicient for the topmast rigging. ..."
7. Wooden Shipbuilding: A Comprehensive Manual for Wooden Shipbuilders, to edited by William John Thompson (1918)
"Swallow.— The space or opening in a block which takes the rope before it passes
over the sheave. swifters.— The forward shrouds of a lower mast on the port ..."
8. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"... the falls of the swifters—half-worne ; the pennants of the swifters—half-worne ;
the backe- stayes—decayed—xvii fa ..."
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