iron crow

DROMIO OF EPHESUS.

Here's too much out upon thee: I pray thee, let me in.

 

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

 

ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.

Well, I'll break in; go borrow me a crow.

 

DROMIO OF EPHESUS.

A crow without feather; master, mean you so?

For a fish without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather:

If a crow help us in, sirrah, we'll pluck a crow together.

 

ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.

Go, get thee gone; fetch me an iron crow.

 

--William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, III.i

 

[The mast of the Swiftsure at the Center for Wooden Boats, Seattle, WA]

Done