| 单词 | martingale-stay |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmartingale-stay a. A stay which holds down the jib boom of a square-rigged ship, running from the boom to the dolphin-striker; also more fully martingale guy, martingale-stay. Also, in a dinghy: a rope running from the boom to the foot of the mast, to prevent the boom rising when it swings outwards.fish-, flying martingale: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes securing bowsprit or jib-boom martingale1794 back-rope1840 gaub-line1841 jib-guy1868 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 233 Martingal-stay, to support the jib-boom. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Martingale, in a ship, a name given to the rope extending downwards from the jib-boom end to a kind of bumkin. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxv. 276 Three of us were out on the martingale guys and back-ropes..carrying out, hooking and unhooking the tackles. 1955 C. N. Longridge Anat. Nelson's Ships ii. xiv. 227 The inner martingale..reeves under the first, i.e. the topmost, sheave of the dolphin striker. < as lemmas |
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