As there was no ice to endanger the boat, the line was put several times around the bollard head and kept very tight, so we were towed much faster than if it had been loose.
As the fish was well fastened, it was safe to snub the line around the bollard head of the boat; there was no fear of the irons drawing and it made a heavy drag on the whale.
The line, in running out, passes through the hands of the har-pooner before going around the bollard head.
The bollard head, around which a turn of the line is taken, is an important structure; it stands in the bow, beside the gun.
Many a boat has gone down through the line fouling at the bollard head.
As we passed the fast boat we saw her jack flying proudly and her bow enveloped in smoke as McKechnie tightened the line around the bollard head.
If man can help them, Harry Shafto and Bollardwill do it.
At length they got near enough to distinguish Bollard and his companions, who had come down to the beach to assist them.
Meantime, Captain Westerway had not forgotten the party at the settlement, and sent up Mr Bollard in the cutter, laden with some of the provisions which had been saved.
He was propped against a bollard and he was in his shore-going clothes.
They went to another bollard and there, the mariner anchoring himself, she began to talk.
As she passed the hawsers came with her, transferred frombollard to bollard by gangs of staggering men.
The bollard snapped with a dead, dull sound; I was entangled in the stout twine, and tossed into the sea.
He nearly swamped the launch, and the friction of the bollard threatened to set it ablaze.
They were clinging, side by side, to an iron bollard fastened to the deck; for the smack was leaning over so that her deck sloped like the roof of a house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bollard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: button; companion; fastener; girth; lacing; parts; ship
