Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...word "ready," remove your scarf (every one is obliged to put one on during an "easy"), settle yourself in your seat, grasp the handle of the oar, thumbs under, about a hand's-breadth between the hands, the outside hand an inch from the end of the oar. At the word "forward," slide up to your stretcher, knees well apart, body down between them as much as possible, arms at their fullest extent, wrists depressed slightly so as to have the outside edge of the blade an inch above the water, and the inside edge resting on the surface...
PIRATICAL STUDENT (who has just received a Public for cutting prayers). O that I had the Board of Overseers in my grasp! Would n't I make them walk the plank...