Serving Mallet

“A semicylindrical piece of wood, fitted with a handle...used for convenience in serving ropes...to prevent chafing. a, serving-mallet; b, ‘wormed’ rope ‘parceled’ with canvas; c, serving-yarn.” -Whitney, 1911

Keywords

ships, worm, boats, serving, nautical, vessels, line, Serve, serving mallet, rope chafing, parcel, chafe, twisted rop, serving-yarn

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Miscellaneous Ship Illustrations

Source

William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)

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