Sentence:  Cut your <WSD>seizings</WSD> and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!” / Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A type of lashing or binding by a small cord.