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单词 nigger-heeled
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nigger-heeled
nigger-heeled adj. (of a sail) having such a curved leech.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [adjective] > type of leech
nigger-heeled1922
1922 C. G. Davis How Sails are Made (ed. 2) 63 A double-bighted sail would, if not carefully handled and hauled out too hard on peak and clew, become ‘nigger-heeled’, as a hollow leech was called.
1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 150 Niggerheeled, said of the leech of a sail that curves inward of a line from peak to clew, and is therefore not roached.
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