| 单词 | ringtail sail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasringtail sail C1. In sense 2, as ringtail-boom, ringtail sail, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > extra sail set on gaff ringtail1769 ringtail sail1769 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > pole controlling position of sail > types of portlof1432 outligger1481 bumkin?c1613 driver-boom1750 ringtail-boom1769 spanker-boom1813 swinging-boom1840 jackyard1862 whisker pole1954 wishbone1984 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Boom Certain long poles run out from different places in the ship to extend the bottoms of particular sails. Of these there are several sorts; as the jib-boom, studding-sail-booms, ring-tail-boom,..and square-sail-boom. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 83 Abaft the after leech of the main-sail, in calm weather, is hoisted a ring-tail-sail. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast vi. 44 He was going aloft to fit a strap round the main top-mast-head, for ringtail halyards. 1873 ‘Vanderdecken’ Yachts & Yachting 185 A racing cutter will be fitted with four gaff-topsails, viz., a jib-headed or ring-tail topsail that is set without a yard. 1901 S. H. King Dog-watches 59 The Victoria, had a throat and peak mainsail instead of the mutton-leg mainsail and ringtail gaff topsail of the Excelsior. 1997 D. R. MacGregor Schooner (2001) vii. 43 The lengths of the spars are prodigious, with a main boom 54ft 5in long, a ringtail boom of 33ft 9in, a bowsprit of 56ft 5in and a jibboom of 50ft. < as lemmas |
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