单词 | mizzen-staysail |
释义 | > as lemmasmizzen-staysail General attributive with the sense ‘relating to, connected with, or situated near the mizzen-mast or mizzen sail’, as mizzen boom, mizzen-rigging, mizzen-sheet, mizzen-shroud, mizzen-staysail, etc. ΚΠ 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 36 Meson shrowdes. 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 49 Meson lyftes..Meson halyers..Meson perell..Meson shetes..Meson tyes. 1589–1600 Acct. Bk. W. Morton f. 53 For one mesene reye xlvi s 8 d. 1600 Court Rec. 26 Sept. in H. Stevens Dawn Brit. Trade E. Indies (1886) 17 1 mizen course and bonnett. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 14 The mison stay. 1630 J. Winthrop Jrnl. 15 Apr. (1996) 11 We hanged out a light vpon our meysen shrouds. 1660 T. Allin Jrnl. 30 Oct. (1939) (modernized text) I. 3 Set..our mizzen staysail. 1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest i. 3 Get the Misen-tack aboard. Haul aft Misen-sheat! 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 456 Hanging white flags..on the mizen peak. 1757 in J. S. McLennan Louisbourg (1918) 209 Fore stay sail, Main and Mizen stay sail all blown away. 1768 J. Byron Narr. Patagonia 206 Which he desired might be hung up in the mizen-shrouds. 1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage xlvi. 594 Carrying away the mizen-boom. 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. i. i. 4 Mizen royal yard 16 ft. Mizen skysail yard 10 ft... Mizen pole 9 ft. 1879 Harper's Mag. Dec. 81/2 Angus Sutherland, who was hoisting himself up by means of the mizzen boom. 1905 Daily Graphic 17 Jan. 4/4 Watching the mizzen truck swing among the stars. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Jan. 30/1 Thrice Bill hung head-downwards over the eyeplate below the shackles of the mizzen rigging. 1964 R. E. Lloyd in Roving Commissions 1963 228 On again next day with, to our joy, a mizzen staysail breeze. 1999 Ventura County (Calif.) Star (Nexis) 14 Feb. E2 It's 103 feet long from the tip of the bowsprit to the end of the mizzen boom. < as lemmas |
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