Lexicographical Neighbors of Tryworks
Literary usage of Tryworks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Incidents of a Whaling Voyage: To which are Added Observations on the by Francis Allyn Olmsted (1841)
"... and in pushing them back to the mincing horse upon the larboard side near the
tryworks—others still, are employed about the mincing horse, ..."
2. Na Motu: Or, Reef-rovings in the South Seas by Edward T. Perkins (1854)
"Our fresh diet is stowed in a solid mass between the weather-bulwarks and the
tryworks, a position, by-the- bye, advantageously chosen,'for here their ..."
3. Alone in the Caribbean: Being the Yarn of a Cruise in the Lesser Antilles in by Frederic Abildgaard Fenger (1917)
"The tryworks, like vaults above ground with the old iron pots sunk into their
tops, gave off the musty rancid smell of whale oil that told of whales that ..."
4. The Yale Literary Magazine by Yale University, Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg (1842)
"... employed in heaving in the whales which we had captured ; and before sunset
the last piece was landed on the deck and the fires lighted in the tryworks. ..."
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