| 单词 | spritsail topsail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspritsail topsail spritsail topsail n. now historical (in some square-rigged vessels) a sail set ahead of the spritsail (sense 1), either on the bowsprit or on the spritsail topmast; cf. sprit topsail n. at sprit n.1 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1600 Court Rec. 26 Sept. in H. Stevens Dawn Brit. Trade E. Indies (1886) 18 Her sprit saile spritesaile top saile rigginge. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) Formerly the spritsail-topsails were set on a mast, which was erected..on the end of the bowsprit. 1805 Times 24 Apr. 2/2 I directed the spritsail top-sail to be set also. 1908 United Service Mag. Feb. 462 The mizzen topsail was introduced in the time of James I., and the spritsail topsail at about the same date. 2011 J. Sephton Sovereign of Seas 16 On the foremost end of her bowsprit she carried a small spritsail topmast. Here was rigged a spritsail topsail. < as lemmas |
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