stepping

Example Sentences

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We should fetch it with one tack, and by unstepping our masts very probably the boat will not be seen, or our hut either, unless the Frenchmen narrowly examine the island.”

From The Rival Crusoes by Kingston, William Henry Giles

This we accomplished, and lowering our sail, and unstepping our mast, we got close in under the trees.

From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat