单词 | resail |
释义 | resailn. A second or subsequent sailing of a yacht race. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > sailing race sailing match1663 yacht-race1867 yacht-racing1868 America's Cup1869 resail1893 sail-off1949 1893 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Times 23 Aug. 1/4 In the resail for the second Astor cup the Vigilant won it easily. 1938 Times 26 Aug. 4/6 Liverpool tied with Oxford..but Oxford won the resail. 1947 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Sept. 14/6 In the resail, sailed Saturday, the breeze barely let the racers finish within the time limit. 1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. 25/8 Experience has shown that resails of cancelled races are not always successful. 2007 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 4 July A potential breach of the rules which could, in theory, have cost Alinghi the race or provoked a re-sail. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). resailv. 1. intransitive. To set sail again; spec. to sail back to a place. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > back resail1584 society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > set out on a voyage > again renavigate1611 resail1725 1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx xxxv. sig. O2 First to sayle with me into Lydia, and after to resaile into Sarmatia. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iii. xvi. 64 The Dane inraged sayled thence.., And did with Brenn, resayling home, at great aduantage meete. 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica viii. 185 Backe to resaile, and to King Priam tell What in his bootlesse voyage him befell. 1659 J. Suckling Sad One v. i, in Last Remains 38 Do we sail upon the vast, and resail, And fetch the Masque from the clouds? 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 931 From Pyle re-sailing and the Spartan court. a1777 F. Fawkes tr. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautics (1780) iv. 276 Discharge this duty, and resail to Greece. 1836 Times 22 Mar. 1/5 The Theodorick, which sailed hence on the 15th ult. for Falmouth, put back on the 26th leaky, but resailed on the 31st. 1898 Daily News 25 Oct. 6/2 The San Nicholas resailed, followed by the American cruiser. 1952 H. J. Carman & H. C. Syrett Hist. Amer. People vi. 141 Eight thousand citizens adopted resolutions directing Captain Ayers..not to enter his cargo at the customhouse and to resail at once for England. 2007 Daily Mail (Nexis) 15 Sept. 43 It [sc. a ferry] resailed at 6am yesterday and arrived in Aberdeen that afternoon. 2. transitive. To sail (a race) again. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > race boats [verb (transitive)] > row a race > repeat race resail1831 1831 New Sporting Mag. Sept. 386/2 This day the match between the yachts belonging to the Members of this Club, for a Silver Cup and Cover, was re-sailed. 1895 Daily News 16 Sept. 3/3 We beg to state..the reason why the last two races were not ordered to be resailed. 1932 Times 21 May 4/7 The sailing committee upheld the protest and declared the race to be void and ordered it to be resailed. 2005 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Sept. 17 The race lasted only 10 minutes before the wind dropped away to nothing and was abandoned with no time left to re-sail it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1893v.1584 |
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