Synonyms

1. buffer
2. cowcatcher
3. fender

Sentence Examples

1. Fogg, bolder than his servant, did not hesitate to approach the pilot, and tranquilly ask him if he knew when a steamer would leave Hong Kong for Yokohama.
2. The pilot put up his poles, but took them down again within two hours, as the wind freshened up anew.
3. The pilot swore an angry oath the reward of two hundred pounds was evidently on the point of escaping him.
4. All the courage, confidence and optimism leaks out of me slowly until the pilot announces our descent into New Orleans and I crash.
5. Twenty times she seemed almost to be submerged by these mountains of water which rose behind her but the adroit management of the pilot saved her.
6. The pilot went on board at six, and took his place on the bridge, to guide the Rangoon through the channels to the port of Hong Kong.
7. The pilot now returned, shuffling his hat in his hands.
8. It was loaded to the muzzle but just as the pilot was about to apply a red-hot coal to the touchhole, Mr.
9. Passepartout, who heard what passed, would willingly have embraced the pilot, while Fix would have been glad to twist his neck.
10. The pilot had hung out his lights, which was very necessary in these seas crowded with vessels bound landward for collisions are not uncommon occurrences, and, at the speed she was going, the least shock would shatter the gallant little craft.