Word: capstan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produced a remarkable description: "The storme still increased and the yce so invironed us, that we could see neither land nor sea, as farre as we could kenne: so that we were faine to ease the ships sides from the great and driry strokes of the yce: some with Capstan barres, some fending off with oares, some with plancks of two ynches thicke, which were broken immediatly with the force of the yce, some going out upon the yce to beare it off with their shoulders from the ships. But the rigorousness of the tempest and the force...