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Projecting outwards from the top of each of these constructions there was, like a curved nail, a bent, gigantic, forged spike. - (Guardsman of Gor, Chapter 4, Sentence #176)

These heavy constructions were some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven or eight feet in width. They were mounted on high platforms near the masts, one at each mast, and could be run out on rollers from the mast, to which they were fastened by adjustable lengths of chain. At the tops these constructions leaned back toward the masts, to which, at the top, they were secured by ropes. Projecting outwards from the top of each of these constructions there was, like a curved nail, a bent, gigantic, forged spike. "The fleet is coming about!" cried a man. To be sure, amidst the wreckage and crowding, and even grinding against the chain, the fleet of the Voskjard had managed to come about. "Flee!" cried a man near me to the crews of the Tais and her sisters, as though they could have heard him over the water. - (Guardsman of Gor)