Meanings of high poop in English

On the high poop of the gallias the skipper stood and watched them.

The frontispiece shows a large galley with high poop and prow and disordered rigging.

See the low bowsprit and the high poop.

She was decked over, and had a high poop astern and a high forecastle in the bows.

And from the high poop Kwan Yung-jin gazed down at us as if he did not see us.

The vessel has a high poop and prow, is decked at each end, and is open in the centre.

Aft, on the high poop, Mr. Baker walked shuffling and grunted to himself in the pauses of his thoughts.

On the high poop also burned censers filled with costliest incense, of which the fragrant steam hung in little clouds about our wake.

At the after or sternmost end a sort of high poop-deck passes from side to side, on which the steersman takes his post.

As the evening darkened, high poop of his vessel, ranging his eye along the dusky horizon, and maintaining an intense and unremitting watch.

It had a high poop and forecastle, a low waist, or middle part, and a splendidly gilt and painted stern, figurehead, and tail.

She looks like a big merchantman to me, such as I've seed in the Injy trade, with a high poop in the old style.

She was a large, clumsy ship, and, with her topmasts stayed forward, and high poop-deck, looked like an old woman with a crippled back.

Cushions were arranged on the high poop, and the sea was as smooth as the silver dishes in which viands were offered to the guests.

On the high poop behind sat the maiden, singing beside her old nurse, who, like me, was enjoying the air for the first time to-night.

Though the quarterdeck was all but empty of crew, a hive of activity centered on the high poop deck at the stern of the ship.