| 单词 | spritsail topmast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspritsail topmast spritsail topmast n. now historical (in some square-rigged vessels) a short mast stepped upright at the end of the bowsprit; cf. sprit topmast n. at sprit n.1 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 12 The spret sayle top mast. 1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation 115 Spritsail top mast. 1890 R. C. Leslie Old Sea Wings, Ways, & Words iii. 38 The jibboom, which in the eighteenth century..superseded this old spritsail-topmast. 1927 Geogr. Jrnl. 69 226 The spritsail topmast at the bowsprit-end, so typical of seventeenth-century men-of-war. 2011 F. Hocker in A. Catsambris et al. Oxf. Handbk. Maritime Archaeol. xx. 454 In the first half of the eighteenth century, the lateen mizzen was replaced.., and the spritsail topmast disappeared. < as lemmas |
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