Citations:ape


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * "Just as you please; I'm sorry I can't spare ye a tablecloth for a mattress, and it's a plaguy rough board here" — feeling of the knots and notches. "But wait a bit, Skrimshander; I've got a carpenter's plane there in the bar — wait, I say, and I'll make ye snug enough." So saying he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief first dusting the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed, the while grinning like an ape.