Crossword-Solution: CAPSTAN 7 letters, 33 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The riotous powwow of setting a spar was going on down on the forecastle, and I went down there and stood around in the way--or mostly skipping out of it--till the mate suddenly roared a general order for somebody to bring him a capstan bar.

His weather-beaten face, his sailor’s hands, his sea-voice hoarse with singing at the capstan, the very foot that had once worn that buckle and trod so much along the swerving decks—the whole human fact of him, as a creature like myself, with hair and blood and seeing eyes, haunted me in that sunny, solitary place, not like a spectre, but like some friend whom I had basely injured.

There is the creaking of a chain, and the loud tinkle as the check of the capstan falls into the rachet.” “What are you doing?” “I am still--oh, so still.

When the sultan saw the present, he said to his men: "Damn this present and the traitor who sent it! This will bring the perdition of my honor, and will be my ruin." When it was nearly midnight, and very dark, the sailor had everything ready to set the captain's ship on fire, and he did it this way: The sailor had fixed a very strong capstan into the ground near the sea.

One hung over the after-capstan, sobbing for breath, and I stood amongst them like a tower of strength, impervious to disease and feeling only the sickness of my soul.