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In another five minutes, we should be throwing off the ropes and hoistingsails.
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The merchant sailors have quite a repertoire, and invariably call on it when getting up anchor or hoistingsails.
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Seamen were hoistingsails, or raising anchors, or rowing their capacious galleys through the water, singing, as they pulled, to the motion of the oars.