bowse

How to use bowse in a sentence

• I shan't have very wide swing with Peters over me, but I'll see that the boys don't get abused when he's bowsed up his jib.

  Jo's Boys | Louisa May Alcott

• The jib was hoisted and bowsed well up, then the backstays, and the topmast-stays were tautened.

  Ernest Bracebridge | William H. G. Kingston

• Not many fellows have been bowsed up in that fashion and cut down so speedily!

  The White Squall | John Conroy Hutcheson

• A tackle was then put on the bow, which was bowsed down until the boat could be dragged straight ahead.

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. | Various

• Couldn't ye've bowsed over on the old jade's pitticuts, Mick?

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 407, September, 1849 | Various