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单词 drabbler
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drabblerdrablern.

/ˈdrablə/
Etymology: < drabble v., in reference to its position.
Nautical.
An additional piece of canvas, laced to the bottom of the bonnet of a sail, to give it greater depth.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > extra canvas laced to sail
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1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. F2v Then scantled we our sailes with speedie hands, And tooke our drablers from our bonnets.
a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea iv, in Wks. (1874) VI. 416 Lace your drablers on.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. lxiii. 256 To our Sails we had added Drablers.
1851 R. Kipping Sails & Sail-making (ed. 2) 182 Drabbler.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Drabler, a piece of canvas laced on the bonnet of a sail to give it more drop..used when both course and bonnet are not deep enough.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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