| 单词 | jib of jibs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjib of jibs 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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