The end of a spar perpendicular to a sailing ship's mast, it was a convenient place to hang your mutineers
... the crew 
and the small matters like the painting of the vessel, to the final sail up Boston 
Harbor, ... visionary scheme of mutiny or foolish ``paying back'' to the captain, but 
by ...... perpendicular hill, twice the height of the ship's mast-head, with a single... [DOC] [TLE] The Ploughboy Anthology eBook of: Nimrod of the Sea; or, the ... [PAR] The Mutiny.