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chained_bear commented on the word burton-tackle
"'I am afraid your father would scarcely be pleased with the style... For example, I am not sure that me and my messmates overhauled the burton-tackle is grammar.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 162
March 4, 2008