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单词 at try
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at try
1. Nautical. In phrase at try, a-try (see a-try adv.), the position of a vessel lying-to in a storm; see try v. 17. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adverb] > bows to sea or well-balanced in gale
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a-try1611
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1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 98 All the night [wee] laye at trie with much raine and foule weather.
a1618 W. Raleigh Observ. Royal Navy (1650) 12 We are forced to lye at trye with our maine Course and Missen.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 40 A storme, let vs lie at Trie with our maine course, that is, to hale the tacke aboord, the sheat close aft, the boling set vp, and the helme tied close aboord.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xviii. 80 Let us go and lye at Trie with our main Course.
β. 1558–89 A. Jenkinson Voy. & Trav. (1886) I. 96 There arose another great storme..and we lay a trie, being driuen farre into the sea.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Cappéer A ship to lye a-try.a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 86 We tooke in our fore course and lay a trie with our maine course.1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 173 We lay a try under a Main-sail.1729 W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 22 Dec. At 5 Reefed our Courses, furled the Fore Sail, brought to, and lay a try under Main Sail.a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 316 Sometimes a-try and sometimes a-hull we busked it out.1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.
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