| 单词 | jib topsail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjib topsail jib topsail n. (see quot. 1961). 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 > 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 1866 Capt. Keay Jrnl. in B. Lubbock China Clippers (1914) App. H. p. xxii Again bent the spare flying-jib for a jib topsail set on fore-royal stay well up. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 411 Jib topsail. 1892 Rudder Sept. 202 The Princess had her jib topsail hoisted. 1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 92/2 Jib-topsail, a light jib set aloft in a similar manner to other head sails. It is hoisted on the outer of the head stays with its tack well up above the jib-boom instead of being fast to it. 1929 A. J. Villiers Falmouth for Orders 219 There were rumours that the captain intended to bend royal-stays'ls and a jib-tops'l, and a water-sail under the bowsprit. 1936 B. M. Adams Ships & Women xi. 239 While Pat O'Brien went out to the boom end to furl the jib topsail I stood on the forecastle head. 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 123 Jib topsail, a light triangular sail, set above the jib; it is hanked to the topmast stay and sometimes called ‘jib o' jib’. < as lemmas |
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