oarsmen
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- activity
- rowing, repairing, baling water
- description
- The crew members responsible for rowing the whaleboats, who are seen repairing damaged boats, being flung from the boat, and desperately trying to save it.
- status
- rocking, flung out, cringing
Relationships
- repairAhab's Whaleboat
- description
- The oarsmen are actively engaged in repairing the two staved whaleboats that have been hoisted to the side of the Pequod.
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- source_text
- the oarsmen were rocking in the two staved boats which had but just been hoisted to the side, and were busily at work in repairing them
- are_flung_fromAhab's Whaleboat
- description
- Three oarsmen are violently flung out of the boat when Moby Dick suddenly canted it over.
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- source_text
- three of the oarsmen—who foreknew not the precise instant of the dart, and were therefore unprepared for its effects—these were flung out
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:08:06.724Z
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