| 单词 | sail ho! |
| 释义 | > as lemmassail ho! b. A ship or other vessel, esp. as descried by its sails. sail ho! ‘the exclamation used when a strange ship is first discerned at sea’ (Adm. Smyth). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] bark1477 sail1517 winged wain1605 sailing-boat1721 sailing-vesselc1748 hogboat1784 sail-boat1798 sail-shipa1850 sailer1871 sailing-ship1871 windjammer1880 windbag1924 windship1934 1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 12 The Duke [Doge of Venice]..went in ther Archa triumphali, which ys in maner of a sayle of a straange facion. 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 99 Wee spyed a saile comming towardes vs..and as soone as wee spyed him we..manned out our Skiffe..but after the saile had espyed vs, he kept about. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiii. 59 A saile, how beares she or stands shee, to wind-ward or lee-ward, set him by the Compasse. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 11 Our Admirall descried a Saile, and immediately made towards her. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 18 A Sail, a Sail. Where? Fair by us. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. viii. 143 I descryed a Sail steering to the South-East. 1814 Ld. Byron Corsair i. ii. 4 Gaze where some distant sail a speck supplies, With all the thirsting eye of Enterprize. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast ii. 15 Her decks were filled with passengers who had come up at the cry of ‘sail ho'. < as lemmas |
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