Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of Drake is here in full — 444 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
DRAKE. Silence in the ship! Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off! Boatswain! All hands to quarters!
Drake
Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of Drake is here in full — 444 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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DRAKE.
Silence
in
the
ship!
Get
out
an
anchor
astern,
and
heave
her
off!
Boatswain!
All
hands
to
quarters!
LEARNER DICTIONARY
Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
Editorial verification pending
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Drake
Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of Drake is here in full — 444 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/88 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
Line 1
DRAKE.
/dreɪk/
Line 2
Silence
in
the
ship!
/ˈsaɪ.ləns ɪn ðə ʃɪp/
Line 3
Get
out
an
anchor
astern,
and
heave
her
off!
Line 4
Boatswain!
/ˈboʊtsweɪn/
Line 5
All
hands
to
quarters!
/ɔːl hændz tuː ˈkwɔːrtərz/
Learner Dictionary
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
anchor
noun
US /ˈæŋkər/
a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
From this reading “Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off!”
Boatswain
noun
US /ˈboʊtsweɪn/
a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen
From this reading “Boatswain!”
drake
noun
US /dreɪk/
English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
From this reading “DRAKE.”
(with “in”) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
From this reading “All hands to quarters!”
heave
verb
US /hiːv/
utter a sound, as with obvious effort
From this reading “Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off!”
housing available for people to live in
From this reading “All hands to quarters!”
transport commercially
From this reading “Silence in the ship!”
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading “Silence in the ship!”
Word partnerships in these lines
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
Get out
verb + adjective
move out of or depart from
In this reading “Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off!”
All hands
adjective + noun
In this reading “All hands to quarters!”
All words in this reading · 19
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading All hands to quarters!
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off!
anchornounUS /ˈæŋkər/
a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
From this reading Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off!
asternadverb
stern foremost or backward
From this reading Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off!
BoatswainnounUS /ˈboʊtsweɪn/
a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen
From this reading Boatswain!
DRAKEnounUS /dreɪk/
English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
From this reading DRAKE.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off!
(with “in”) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
From this reading All hands to quarters!
heaveverbUS /hiːv/
utter a sound, as with obvious effort
From this reading Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off!
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Silence in the ship!
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off!
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Get out an anchor astern, and heave her off!
housing available for people to live in
From this reading All hands to quarters!
transport commercially
From this reading Silence in the ship!
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading Silence in the ship!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Silence in the ship!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading All hands to quarters!
Chapter 7 of Drake by William MacOubrey holds 444 sentences, grouped into 89 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
What does chapter 7 of Drake contain?
Chapter 7 holds 444 sentences of Drake, unabridged, divided into 89 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of Drake by William MacOubrey exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 444 sentences, grouped into 89 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
How do I study chapter 7 of Drake?
Work through the 89 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 89 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 7 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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How long does Drake take to read?
About 296 minutes of reading across 711 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to read Drake section by section
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Vocabulary met early in Drake
Words and structures a reader meets early in Drake, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Middle
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Drake; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Temple
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Drake; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Barrister
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Drake; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Saith
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Drake; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.