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chained_bear commented on the word hanging knees
"...for when Fox's perfectly fluent Malay ran dry on the subject of spirketting, hanging knees, brace-bitts and riding-bitts, the Sultan at once grasped Jack's explanation chalked on the deck..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 207
March 4, 2008