单词 | outhaul |
释义 | outhauln. Nautical. An appliance for hauling out; spec. a rope used to haul out the clew of a sail (opposed to inhaul). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > inhaul or outhaul inhauler1793 outhauler1793 outhaul1840 inhaul1860 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxiii. 126 We were nearly an hour setting the sail; carried away the outhaul in doing it. 1891 Harper's Weekly 19 Sept. 713/4 The forward man sets and furls the jib by means of outhauls and halyards. 1949 Sun (Baltimore) 27 Aug. 8/8 Two boats broke rudders and three parted outhauls, making the five of them either nonstarters or nonfinishers. 1988 Seahorse Sept.–Oct. 55/2 With such a mainsail-dominated boat you can keep the hull from coming up in small increases of wind by flattening the bottom of the sail with the outhaul. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840 |
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