airless

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Kabuo, giving up, propped a buoy bag between the stern fairleads and lit a kerosene lantern with a wooden kitchen match.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

“What about a net roller? Or one of these fairleads at the stern of a gill-netter? Are they also flat and narrow?”

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

In the stern the net slipped free from the drum and rolled over the fairleads easily toward the sea until at last the whole of it was out of the boat, three hundred fathoms long.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson