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单词 hard-a-port
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hard-a-portv.

Brit. /ˌhɑːdəˈpɔːt/, U.S. /ˈˌhɑrdəˈpɔrt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: hard-a-port at hard adv. 6b
Etymology: < hard-a-port at hard adv. 6b.
Now rare.
transitive. To put (a ship's helm, etc.) hard-a-port. Also intransitive.
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1853 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 3 May The steamer had ported her helm a half a minute, and then hard a ported it for another half minute, and a collision had occurred.
1867 P. H. Colomb How Collisions at Sea Occur II. 4 If she ported and hard-a-ported as soon as she saw the red light, and stopped her engines..I do not know what more she could do.
1882 H. C. Rothery Digest Judgm. Board of Trade Inq. into Shipping Casualties 221 The helm was hard-a-ported, which brought her head round from E.N.E. to about E. by S.
1905 Federal Reporter 134 949 The master of the tug, not having heard the whistling buoy and in fear of being too close to the beach, wanting to get off shore, hard-a-ported the helm of the tug.
1920 U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals Rep. 169 456 She kept her course without change until abreast, when she hard-a-ported.
1932 Times 14 Dec. 4/3 The Florida was in fault for not stopping her engines on hearing the fog whistle of the Glorious and for hard-a-porting her helm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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hard-a-port
b. Nautical. With reference to the steering or manoeuvring of a ship: right (round) to the specified position or direction, in hard-alee, hard-a-port, hard-a-starboard, hard up (cf. up adv.1 6e), etc. (frequently as a command).The adverbial phrases are occasionally used as verbs: see hard-a-port v., hard-a-starboard v.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > steering > [adjective] > specific position of tiller
hard up1745
steady1816
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 32 Hail doune the steir burde lufe harde a burde.
1625 M. Pring in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. v. vii. 651 We put the helme hard aweather, thinking that the ship would haue come round, but all in vaine.
1689 M. Taubman Londons Great Jubilee 10 Helm a Lee, starboard, hard a Port, thus, keep her thus.
1707 London Gaz. No. 4380/2 We clap'd our Helm hard a Starboard.
1745 Def. made by John Ambrose 5 I began to engage the Enemy, and continued to do all in my Power to get nigher to them, yawing the Ship, and ordering the Helm to be put hard up, sometimes the one Way, and sometimes the other.
1788 J.-N. de Sauseuil tr. J. Bourdé de Villehuet Manœuverer ii. ix. 116 The helm put hard a-lee, and the head sheets let fly.
1808 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 6) xi. 137 Washington then boldly seized the helm, and with a hard-a-lee, luffed up his ship at once to the gale.
1835 ‘F. Grummet’ Grummett's Log 127 The sonorous and deep voice of Captain Dashall exclaimed, ‘Hard a port the helm!’ The tiller was instantly jammed hard over.
1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship I. x. 216 Hard a-port! flatten in forward!
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. x. 310 Hard up the helm... La barre au vent.
1913 W. B. Meloney Girl of Golden Gate xxx. 283Hard up! Hard up!’ cried Paul in alarm. Blindly Emily recovered herself and put the helm up. The Daphne fell off before the wind.
1990 J. Updike Rabbit at Rest i. 128 What I'm going to do is something called coming about, hard alee.
2000 Vanity Fair May 96/2 He turned to the man at the Dauphin's wheel and ordered, ‘Hard up the helm’.
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