Crossword-Solution: BOLLARDS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Ropes were thrown, great hawsers were hauled ashore and made fast to sturdy bollards, fenders were dropped overside, and the _Bonaventure_ was very smartly secured abreast the warehouse which was destined to receive her cargo.

She was supported on an even keel by the mooring ropes made fast from her bow and stern to bollards on the quay.

Lines had been cast aboard at bow and stern, and the ship was rapidly being secured to stout bollards ashore.

After this the hemp portion of the tow-rope was secured to bollards on the quarter-decks of both craft, the slack of the hawsers attached to the kedge-anchors was taken up, the skippers stood by their respective engine-room telegraphs, and, at a signal from Wong-lih, the _San-chau_ went slowly ahead until the towing hawser was taut.

Leaning with folded arms upon one of the wharf bollards, and apparently oblivious of the driving sleet and cutting wind, a shabbily dressed man of about thirty years of age was looking, pipe in mouth, at the mail boat and the sailing vessels lying in the stream.