Meanings of grummet in English

There was also one grummet of round-shot at every gun, besides the racks being filled.

He had brought a long piece of rope, which he formed into a large grummet, or hoop, round the tree.

This he twisted into a huge grummet round the tree, leaving space enough for his own body to get in also.

This example was followed by the rest: Seeing this, Pat secured several about his neck, and then getting into his grummet he descended.

It had grummets and was laced down at the edge with cord.

Their dreams are of cringles and reef-tackles, of knots, splices, grummets, and dead-eyes.

For this madness the refractory convict had been condemned to the solitude of the Grummet Rock.

Give them solitary confinement on Grummet Island.

I'll write to Clew, Earring and Grummet, and ask them if they have a vacancy for you.

The crew, or mariners, were divided into able seamen, ordinary seamen, grummets, or cabin-boys, ship-boys and swabbers.

"Well," said Grummet, "I'll take it for cleaning-rags at one cent."

The rising moon shone softly on the bay beneath them, and touched with her white light the summit of the Grummet Rock.

"Dawes's fire, on Grummet Rock," says Vickers, going in; "the man I told you about.

When a man gets very bad, we clap him into a boat with a week's provisions and pull him over to Grummet.

Ned in the meantime was waiting anxiously for an answer to the letter his uncle had written Messrs Clew, Earring and Grummet, the shipowners.

The lighting boats' crews, without orders, were busy with their boats, some cutting up old blankets to muffle the oars, other making new grummets.