| 单词 | close to a wind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclose to (also by, on, upon) a wind c. Nautical. close to (also by, on, upon) a wind, and similar expressions: see quot. 1867. (In both adj.adv. uses.) ΚΠ 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 39 You set your sailes so sharp as you can to lie close by a wind. 1666 London Gaz. No. 60/4 Keeping their wind close to make the Lee~wards. 1666 London Gaz. No. 66/4 They..stood all off to Sea, close on a wind. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vii. 212 One of our prizes was ordered to stand close in with it [the Island]. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Close to the wind, when her head is just so near the wind as to fill the sails without shaking them. a1871 N. P. Willis in Forster Life Dickens (1872) I. v. 87 Collarless and buttoned up, the very personification, I thought, of ‘a close sailer to the wind’. close to a wind Categories » c. Nautical. close to a wind, etc.: see A. 15a. < as lemmas |
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