单词 | passaree |
释义 | passareen. Nautical. Now historical. A rope used in square-rigged ships to spread a foresail or mainsail when sailing before the wind, by hauling the clews to the end of a lower studdingsail boom. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > sheet or brace > rope to haul down sheet-block passarado1625 passaree1669 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 18 Hawl aft the fore-Sheet, bring him down to the Cat-head with a pass-a-ree. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. Ee3 Passaree, a rope used to fasten the main-tack down to the ship's side, a little behind the chestree. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Passaree, or Passarado, a rope..to haul out the clues of the fore-sail to tail-blocks on the booms, so as to full-spread the foot of that sail. 1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 521/2 It was rove through a block on the passaree boom or lower studding sail boom. 1986 P. O'Brian Reverse of Medal iii. 98 He set studdingsails aloft and alow..brought the foretack to the cathead with a passaree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † passareev. Nautical. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To spread the clews of (a sail) with a passaree. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > support (an amount of) sail [verb (intransitive)] > spread clews with passaree passaree1884 1884 S. B. Luce Text-bk. Seamanship 435 With stun'sails both sides, passaree the foresail, by means of a rope on each side, secured to the clew of the foresail, and rove through a bull's eye on the lower boom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1669v.1884 |
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