Not P but Moby-Dick (51)

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Sun Dec 3 07:58:30 UTC 2023


>From Chapter 64:

About midnight that steak was cut and cooked; and lighted by two lanterns
of sperm oil, Stubb stoutly stood up to his spermaceti supper at the
capstan-head, as if that capstan were a sideboard.

What does "stoutly" mean here?


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