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Discussion Groups / English Usage / October 2008Manlines
Hello: I'd have expected the dictionaries to issue a ready-made definition of "manlines," but I couldn't find any. I assume they're ropes for the crew to move around a sailboat, perhaps? ------ [Preparing for the war in the commercial navy] We did fire-fighting and abandon-ship drills eight or ten times a day. The boats crashed down from the davits; the trainees poured into them from manlines and cargo nets, rambunctious, mauling and horsing around, prodding with boat hooks, goosing and carrying on, screaming about female genitals. Then rowed. Hours and hours of rowing. The water curled like a huge bed of endive. Augie March, by Bellow, p. 511 ----- Thanks. Marius Hancu >Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >Thanks. >Marius Hancu Manlines are lines draped from the deck on down, so men can either safely climb into boats or perform work on the ship's hull.  SignatureRegards, Chuck Riggs Near Dublin, Ireland > >We did fire-fighting and abandon-ship drills eight or ten times a day. > >The boats crashed down from the davits; the trainees poured into them > >from manlines and cargo nets, rambunctious, mauling and horsing around, > >prodding with boat hooks, goosing and carrying on, screaming about > >female genitals. Then rowed. Hours and hours of rowing. The water curled > >like a huge bed of endive. > Manlines are lines draped from the deck on down, so men can either > safely climb into boats or perform work on the ship's hull. Right, now I remember. Thank you all. Marius Hancu [...] > [Preparing for the war in the commercial navy] [...] Chuck's answered, but I'll add, by the way, that we say "Merchant Navy". SignatureMike. On Oct 30, 4:53 pm, "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle...@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote: > [...]> [Preparing for the war in the commercial navy] > > [...] > > Chuck's answered, but I'll add, by the way, that we say "Merchant Navy". Right. Missed the term for one moment. Thanks. Marius Hancu >Hello: > >I'd have expected the dictionaries to issue a ready-made definition of >"manlines," but I couldn't find any. > >I assume they're ropes for the crew to move around a sailboat, perhaps? <span class="not-serious"> Surely it's the silhouette of a gentlemen's-undergarment model, no? </span> -GAWollman SignatureGarrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are wollman@csail.mit.edu| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness Garrett Wollman filted: >>Hello: >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >Surely it's the silhouette of a gentlemen's-undergarment model, no? ></span> It's the parts of a naked man that have escaped exposure to the sun....r SignatureLittle-known fact: About 2% of the famous quotations credited to "Anonymous" were actually originated by Jasper D Anonymous, a 14th-century maker of carriage wheels. |
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