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pinnace

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pinnace
any of various kinds of ship's tender


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Captain Granet, Ralph promised that there should be a pinnace at number seven dock from one until three.
The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
The pinnace was then manned, and two of the partners, Mr.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
It was not the new panic amidships that froze my marrow; it was not that the pinnace hung perpendicularly by the fore-tackle, and had shot out those who had swarmed aboard her before she was lowered, as a cart shoots a load of bricks.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
 
 
 
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