Aug 14, 2012 15:21
11 yrs ago
English term

in full bearing of

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Clinging to a spar with one hand, some reached forth the other with impatient wavings; others, shading their eyes from the vivid sunlight, sat far out on the rocking yards; all the spars --------------------in full bearing of ---------------------mortals, ready and ripe for their fate. Ah! how they still strove through that infinite blueness to seek out the thing that might destroy them!

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loaded with sailors

This is how I understand it - the spars are bearing a large number of sailors, "ready and ripe for their fate", which could be falling to the deck or into the sea, with serious, if not fatal, consequences.
Peer comment(s):

agree Mehmet Hascan : holding sailors
4 mins
Thanks, Mehmet!
agree Yvonne Gallagher : yes, fully bearing
1 hr
Thanks, gallagy2!
agree Phong Le
10 hrs
Thanks, Phong Le!
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