frothed like yeast?

Question

What does these similies mean?

And the billows frothed like yeast .


She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed.


And a whooping billow swept the crew / Like icicles from her deck.

She struck where the white and fleecy waves / Looked soft as carded wool.


Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank.

Answer 1

Billows = to swell or bulge. clouds are billowy. Yeast bubbles and foams.

Frightened steed = a nervous animal such as a horse or deer. They often freeze in place and shake from nerves.

sweep the crew = I pretty sure they were all washed over board.

carded wool = soft, spongy, and billowy (lol)

stove and sank = stove in means to cave in.

I would be really interested in knowing what this is from. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Q -And the billows frothed like yeast .

A- (Making some assumptions here. Clouds)
On a hot day a cloud will billow and grow spreading- like yeast rising in a pan, fluffy and seemingly growing for no apparent reason you can see.

Q -She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed.

A- A horse, when tense or frightened, will freeze, yet every inch of it’s skin will twitch and move often in seemingly different directions, as the horse readies itself to run or flee. So she was really terrified.

Q -And a whooping billow swept the crew / Like icicles from her deck.

A- The old sailing ships going “around the Horn” would often get a coating of ice on virtually every inch of it’s lines and sails, then when the wind filled the sails the icicles would snap and crash shattering across the deck and sea. A sail boat that loses the wind will “loft” the sail will flutter and flap, then as the wind fills it, it will billow out- and woe to any crewman/crew women who are in the way as the entire ship can twist throwing the crew to the deck or the sail itself filling can toss an unwary crew member off their feet or even off the ship.

Q -She struck where the white and fleecy waves / Looked soft as carded wool.

A- Wool, taken from sheep, was often dirty, clumped together and in piles. (Think about taking a brush to a dog that is shedding, a thick clump of hair comes out.) Then you would “card” the wool. Using something somewhat resembling a large hand-held wooden comb, you would pull at the edges of the wool clump, pulling out pieces until it was soft, (relatively) clean and in lacy soft strings of wool. This could then be spun (using a spinning wheel) into yarn to make clothing.

-Hence, as you card the wool, it looks soft and white like fleecy- (fleece is sheep’s wool) waves, namely instead of a hard looking or dangerous bit of water- the impression is the water she hit was soft and gentle- making for an easy and safe (implied) entry into the water.

(A bit too flowery for my style.)

Q- Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank.

A- To stove in a ship is...think of the movie Titanic where it snapped and sank. A very sudden thing. Stove in means to bust in or to smash into something.

So, if a ship was made of glass, and it got between two waves it would snap- or a better explanation is a large wave striking the side of a ship made of glass would- based on the metaphor, simply smash in the side of the ship- causing it to sink really fast. Think of a glass bowl, hit the side with a hammer and you would stove in it’s side. Same idea with a ship- meaning the ship was made really badly also seems to be implied.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

I bake bread and the yeast bubbles. It has mostly little bubbles with a few larger bubbles on top. I guess the first one means the waves looked all bubbly on top.

Have you ever seen a nervous horse? If not, I don't know how to explain that one.

The whooping billow washed the crewmen off the deck. The crew are being compared to the icicles. They washed overboard easily.

Carded wool is wool that has been combed and cleaned. No impurities in it.

I'm not sure about the last one. I just know that when I put a glass in the dishwater, it begins to fill up and one end goes underwater and eventually the other goes down too.

I don't know if that was very helpful, being that most of my experiences were with housework or baking, but that's the best I can come up with.
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Answer 4

Think about how yeast is made.
Horse shake whn the are scared.
Even seen an ice cude slide across a wood floor?
Carded wool - means it is straighten and cleaned just after shearing.
Throw a coffe cup in a bathtub and see what happens

Answer 5

This is a homework question and you must do it YOURSELF!