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| 2 | 245 | The View more quotes about common">common galley usually carries three wharfing poles, for pushing away from a wharf, until oars can obtain their purchase. |
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| 2 | 242 | Her starboard oars were mostly indrawn, or still. |
| 2 | 243 | The stroke of one of those levers can kill a man. |
| 2 | 244 | The hull of the galley was within two or three yards, and a wharfing pole thrust over the bulwarks, toward me. |
| 2 | 245 | The common galley usually carries three wharfing poles, for pushing away from a wharf, until oars can obtain their purchase. |
| 2 | 246 | One is usually used at the bow, the second amidships, the last at the stern. |
| 2 | 247 | They are also used to adjust wharfage, until the lines are snug to the wharf cleats. |
| 2 | 248 | In battle they help to prevent boardings, keeping another ship at bay until grappling hooks might be dislodged. |