| 单词 | sliding-gunter |
| 释义 | > as lemmassliding-gunter a. Applied to a method of rigging in which the topmast slides up and down the lower mast on rings or hoops; a mast so rigged or a sail attached to such a mast (more fully sliding-gunter). [So called from its resemblance to a ‘sliding Gunter’; see quot. 1728 at sense 1b.] ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set to a gunter sliding-gunter1794 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > spars used to extend head of sail sprityard1485 sprit1536 gaff1769 sliding-gunter1867 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 136 Boat's Latteen Sail... This sail, when the head of it (then called the fore-leech) is laced to a mast and topmast, is called a sliding-gunter-sail; the topmast being made to slide down the mast by means of hoops. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 229 Ship's Pinnaces..sometimes..rig with a sliding-gunter, like houarios. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 238 These sails are called sliding-gunters, and used in the English navy's pinnaces and barges. 1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 23 Three sorts of sails,—the spreet, the gunter, and the lug. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sliding Gunters, masts fitted for getting up and down with facility abaft the mast; generally used for kites, as royals, skysails, and the like. 1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. 184 Boats rigged with two sliding gunters are the best suited for cruising purposes. 1894 Outing 24 35/1 The rig was a sliding gunter mainsail. 1894 Outing 24 148/2 The sliding gunter rig,..the mast is in two pieces, the topmast sliding up and down the lower mast on two wrought-iron rings or travelers. < as lemmas |
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