| 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). < | 
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