YARN-SPINNING • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Yarn-spinning

... glad to see, including even that of Captain Flinn, whose ship, the "Artemise," happened to be in port at the time, and little Fisher, who had recovered in a most marvellous manner from his dreadful wounds. There was a great deal of yarn-spinning, some capital singing, and a great deal of wine-drinking, too, on the part of one or two of the guests, notwithstanding which latter drawback we spent a very ...

— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood