| 单词 | spilling-line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspilling-line spilling-line n. Nautical (see quots. 17692, 1882). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes for shortening sail > reefing lines reef line1711 reef tackle1711 point1769 reefpoint1769 spilling-line1769 reef hank1794 reefing point1847 1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) ii. 64 High o'er the lee yard-arm the canvas swell'd: By spilling lines embrac'd, with brails confin'd. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (1780) Spilling-lines,..ropes fixed occasionally to the main~sail and fore-sail of a ship,..for reefing or furling them more conveniently. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxi. 372 Reef-tackles were rove to the courses, and spilling-lines to the top-sails. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 125 The spilling lines..are small pieces of rope fitted on the fore side of the sail for picking up the reef line in reefing topsails. < as lemmas |
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