When a person speaks with vociferous fluency, he is said to have hauled his jawing-tacks on board.
·noun Scolding; clamorous or abusive talk. II. Jawing ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Jaw>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The peculiar nails with which the mast coats are fastened. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Making contrary boards. Also, a colloquialism for cross purposes. ...
Small iron or copper tacks, used for nailing the leather on the pump-boxes. ...
See short boards. ...
The lifting the clues of the courses, previously to bracing round the yards in tacking or wearing. ...
The order to hang up the weather-main and fore-sheet, and the lee-main and fore-tack, to the small k...
This is to haul them forward, and down to the chess-trees on the weather-side. ...