| 单词 | flying jib |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflying jib a. Floating loosely, fluttering, waving. Hence in wider sense, Attached so as to have freedom of movement, hanging loose. flying jib, ‘a light sail set before the jib, on the flying jib-boom’; also flying-boom, flying-iron; flying deck, ‘a deck supported at the side by railings, stanchions, or the like’ (Webster 1934); flying-kites, see kite n. 5; flying martingale, a supporting rope for the flying jib-boom. flying ring, each of a number of rings suspended in pairs or rows by swinging ropes used in acrobatics and gymnastics; flying trapeze, = trapeze n. 1.with flying colours: see colour n.1 Phrases 9. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > waving in the wind windyc1450 streaming1567 flying1607 wavinga1616 flaunting1624 the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > streaming streaming1567 plemmirrulate1592 flowing1606 flying1607 loose1781 streamy1813 fly-away1843 flowy1925 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > acrobatic performance > [noun] > performance on trapeze > trapeze flying trapeze1864 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 54 This flying Trench is to be made in all proportion like a plain full english Snafle. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 59 To spread the flying Canvass for the Fleet. View more context for this quotation 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 239 They carry..a flying topsail. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. iv. 50 Their flying jib-booms were..pointed over the taffrails of their precessors. 1849 R. Curzon Visits to Monasteries Levant 4 A red cap, a jacket with flying sleeves. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 201 To give lightness to ‘flying drapery’. 1864 J. G. Bertram Glimpses Real Life xiii. 130 If the bounding youth be swinging to and fro on the flying trapeze. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 13 The flying jib-boom is supported downwards by a flying martingale. 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 24 The given diameter of a flying-boom is at the boom-iron. 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 23 The extreme end [of the jib-boom] is eight-square and an iron hoop driven on to receive the flying iron. 1896 Daily News 17 Dec. 6/1 The boats are relegated to a flying deck overhead. 1901 Daily News 20 Feb. 6/7 Flying-ring performers, a troupe consisting of two men and a girl. 1919 C. Mackenzie Sylvia & Michael iii. 77 A fellow with a moustache like a flying trapeze. 1934 W. Saroyan (title) The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze & Other Stories. 1953 Britannica Bk. Year 639/2 Flying boom, a system used to refuel aircraft in flight. 1965 E. Bruton Wicked Saint iii. 35 Heidi's mother continued in a ground job with the circus..but for ever hankered after the flying trapeze. flying jib a. Nautical. A triangular stay-sail stretching from the outer end of the jib-boom to the fore-topmast head in large ships, and from the bowsprit to the mast-head in smaller craft. flying jib, a second sail of similar shape set before the jib on the flying jib-boom at jib-boom n. (but c1700–1750 applied to the only jib of large vessels); in some large vessels more jibs, in extreme cases as many as six, are carried, the outermost being the jib of jibs: see quot. 1867.‘No Tudor ship carried anything in the form of a fore-sail or jib. It was not till long afterwards that any nation adopted them for square-rigged vessels—a fact that is very remarkable, since they were certainly used by small craft at the end of the 16th century.’ (J. Corbett Successors of Drake (1900) 424.) ‘In 1688 jibs were part of the ordinary stores at Woolwich, and must therefore have been used in the large ships before that date.’ (M. Oppenheim.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > jib or sail set on forestay jib1661 jib-sail1751 fore-stay1753 headstay1805 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > jib or sail set on forestay > types of marabut1622 flying jib1711 storm-jiba1827 spitfire-jib1858 jib topsail1866 reaching foresail1901 reacher1903 jumbo1912 Yankee1912 Yankee jib1912 Genoa1932 Genoa jib1932 slave1934 quad1937 slave jib1948 masthead genoa1958 1661 Inventory Swallow Ketch (S. P. Dom. Chas. II. xxxv. 10. 1) One new Gibb..One ould Gibb. 1694 Acct. Stores sent to Streights Fleet 31 July in Navy Board Lett. XXIX. 834 For preserving the sailes—Jibbs Two, Mizen Tops11 i. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 117 There is another Sail call'd a flying Gib. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 16 Her flying Jyb loose. 1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 280 My Fore-sail and Jibb were patched out of the Pieces of the Main-Sail. 1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 140 Those [sails] which are not bent to the Yards, are, the Flying Jibb, Fore, Fore-top, Main..and Mizon Top-mast Stay Sails. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 83 Before the mast is a foresail, a jib, and a flying jib. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Jib of Jibs, a sixth jib on the bowsprit, only known to flying-kitemen: the sequence being—storm, inner, outer, flying, spindle, jib of jibs. 1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 53 The jib swung loose in the sudden gale. < as lemmas |
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