bobstay

Bobstay would have gone clean through this 'baggage' and come out on the other side.

I brought the boat around, returned and stopped it with the bobstay from the bowsprit close enough for Cindy to grab and climb aboard.

Ben Bobstay, the Boatswain's Mate, and Rosetta of Boston.

Bill Bobstay, Boatswain's Mate (baritone)

Instead of a bobstay the end of the bowsprit was supported by an extra spar (bar) resting on the cutwater above the waterline.

In the 1947-48 season, Watson gave up the role of Captain Corcoran and played Bill Bobstay in Pinafore.

Mr. Smith made his debut with the company in 1962 as Bill Bobstay in "H. M. S. Pinafore."

Gilbert and Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore, as Bill Bobstay (1994, Telarc)

Bill Bobstay, the "Boatswain's Mate" character in the operetta H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) by Gilbert and Sullivan.

'Stand by, men; well board over her bow: up the bobstay, anchor cable, anchor stock - men with broad shoulders give the little chaps a leg - up!'

As soon as she came to rest they had splashed out, slung their muskets over their shoulders and climbed up over the bow, using the bobstay and anchors to get a foothold.

During the tour, he added the Savoy opera roles of Doctor Daly in The Sorcerer and Bill Bobstay in H.M.S. Pinafore to his repertory.

Also, the character Bill Bobstay in Gilbert and Sullivan's musical comedy H.M.S. Pinafore is alternatively referred to as a "bos'un" and a "boatswain's mate."

I heard the wind sighing in the rigging of my boat, I heard the halyards napping on the mast, and I wondered if the mooring chains were chafing at the bobstay in the running tide.

Dolphin striker - A short spar fitted mid way and vertically downwards,midway along a bowsprit that holds the bobstay and prevents the outboard end of the bowsprit riding upwards under the load of a tensioned headsail.

His Counsel had made great game of them--Bobstay, Q. C. There WERE Counsel in those days; the Q. C.'s had been better than the K. C.'s were.

Foskisson was evidently going to put his heart into that--perhaps he'd suffered from it; and if he was anything like old Bobstay, who had just published his reminiscences at the age of eighty-two, that cat would lose her hair and give herself away.

In the 1948-49 season, he became second understudy to Martyn Green and continued to play several of the smaller roles, including Bouncer in Cox and Box, Bill Bobstay in H.M.S. Pinafore and Major Murgatroyd in Patience.