Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 38 | These are View more quotes about sometimes">sometimes sheathed with tin near the points, again to make it harder to cut or chop them away. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 35 | They are much more useful, in my opinion, at sea, as in, say, drawing ships within boarding distance of one another, the ropes then usually being attached to chains some ten feet or so behind the hooks. |
| 16 | 36 | This makes it hard to cut them free. |
| 16 | 37 | Boarding hooks, on poles, are often used, too, for such purposes, when one can get close enough. |
| 16 | 38 | These are sometimes sheathed with tin near the points, again to make it harder to cut or chop them away. |
| 16 | 39 | Pikes for repelling boarders, it might be noted, are often greased near the blade end. |
| 16 | 40 | This makes it harder for boarders to grasp them, wrenching them away, forcing gaps in the pike wall, and so on. |
| 16 | 41 | I will append one qualification to these observations pertaining to grapnels which is to acknowledge the giant, chain grapnel, and its relative, the grapnel derrick. |
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They are much more useful, in my opinion, at sea, as in, say, drawing ships within boarding distance of one another, the ropes then usually being attached to chains some ten feet or so behind the hooks.
This makes it hard to cut them free.
Boarding hooks, on poles, are often used, too, for such purposes, when one can get close enough.
These are sometimes sheathed with tin near the points, again to make it harder to cut or chop them away.
Pikes for repelling boarders, it might be noted, are often greased near the blade end.
This makes it harder for boarders to grasp them, wrenching them away, forcing gaps in the pike wall, and so on.
I will append one qualification to these observations pertaining to grapnels which is to acknowledge the giant, chain grapnel, and its relative, the grapnel derrick.
- (Renegades of Gor)