| 单词 | small sail |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall sail small sail n. (also small sails) Nautical (now historical) (a) minimal spread of sails; (also) an instance of this; (b) any of the subsidiary sails of a sailing ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > very highest sails small sail1669 kite1856 1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya ii. 37 Bearing a small saile all nighte, wee made many soundings. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 16 Take in your Main and Main-top-sail, Steering-sails [etc.]... Thus you have all the small Sails in. 1802 in Naval Documents U. S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Rec.) (1940) II. 144 Made and took in small sails occasionaly. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 634 Small-Sails, topgallant-studding-sails and the kites. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 604 Small sail, and snug sail, low and reduced, ready for bad weather. 1960 Mariner's Mirror 56 218 Some vessels used to ‘shram’ their sterns down on the sea in bad weather when hove to with resultant damage and leaks in the sternlockers. Heaving to was therefore avoided and such craft were 'headreached' under very small sail. 1992 S. Holloway Courage High! viii. 70/2 ‘Duck’ was a form of coarse cotton, often used on small sails. < as lemmas |
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