| 单词 | queen staysail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasqueen staysail queen staysail n. Nautical a triangular maintopmast staysail in a schooner yacht.The sail was apparently first designed by Capt. Nat Herreshoff (1848–1938) for his 1906 racing schooner ‘Queen’ (see quot. 1948). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > other staysails mainstaysail1669 storm-staysail1850 spilling-staysail1851 queen staysail1922 queen's staysail1926 1922 N.Y. Times 3 Aug. 10/8 Vagrant carried what is known as a queen staysail. 1933 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 23 June 1/2 Going slightly northeast with a southeast wind the ‘skipper’ employed the queen staysail, which gave him a little more canvas. 1948 L. F. Herreshoff in Rudder Aug. 58 Because previous staysails had to be lowered away in tacking, when my father designed the schooner Queen he did away with the triatic stay and in its place ran a stay called a ‘fresh water stay’ between the topmast heads. This staysail with which a schooner can tack is called a ‘Queen staysail’, as it was first used on the schooner Queen. 1994 E. Marino Sailmaker's Apprentice (2001) iii. 89 The queen staysail..is a tremendous reaching sail of light construction set from the mainmast head. < as lemmas |
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