| 单词 | come no higher |
| 释义 | > as lemmascome no higher b. Nautical. no higher (also come no higher): a command that a vessel go no closer to the wind. Cf. high adj. 15g. Now rare. ΚΠ c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 32 Than the master cryit on the rudir man, mait keip ful and by, a luf, cumna hiear. 1839 Dearden's Misc. July 397 The frequent order which he gave to the man at the wheel of—‘Sted-dy, no higher, boy’—pronounced him to be the officer of the watch steering the vessel—which was sailing close hauled upon the starboard tack. 1841 B. J. Totten Naval Text-bk. xix. 150 She will come up as the wind hauls until ‘she is her course.’ Then give directions to the helmsman, to let her come ‘no higher’. 1863 S. B. Luce Seamanship (ed. 2) xxv. 471 Should the ship be standing along on a taut bowline, and the quartermaster perceives that a cloth or two of the main-topsail was lifting, he cries out, No higher! by which he means that the ship is not only too high, or too near the wind, but that she should go off a little. 1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. No higher! < as lemmas |
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