Meanings (ES + gloss)
aferrar • recoger
To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)
When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.
With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him…
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