单词 | spritsail yard |
释义 | spritsail yardn. Nautical. Now historical. In some square-rigged vessels: a yard slung under the bowsprit to support a spritsail. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > yard > other yards sprityard1485 peggy1494 spritsail yard1514 topgallant yard1514 main-topgallant-yard1588 driver yard1757 square yards1769 1514 Inventory in C. S. Knighton & D. M. Loades Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's Navy (2000) ii. 121/1 The sprete seyle yerde j. 1599 N. Downton in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 200 The burning asunder of our spritsaile-yard. 1616 J. Smith Descr. New Eng. 53 This examinate came so neere with the ship vnto the French men of warre, that they split the maine sayle on the others spret sayle yard. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. iii. 16 The spret-saile Yard [must be] 16. yards long, and but nine inches thicke. 1687 London Gaz. No. 2246/4 A Sally Man of War,..with his Men on his Bowsprit and his Sprissel-yards along Ships. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 281 We..got our Spritsail-yard fore and aft,..which is an infallible Sign of a Design to board the Enemy. 1797 S. James Narr. Voy. 28 The boatswain, and others of the English seamen, were sitting at the spritsail yard. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxv. 83 The spritsail yard sprung in the slings. 1896 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 6 Dec. 4/5 Before long the ludicrous and objectionable cowl will become as obsolete as the spritsail yard. 1912 D. Hannay Sea Trader 3 He would give her spritsail gaffs, and not what she really carried, a spritsail yard. 1979 P. O'Brian Fortune of War ii. 81 He made his way through them to the bows, then carefully out along the bowsprit as far as the spritsail yard. 2009 Times 7 Feb. 26/5 Victory loses her figurehead and spritsail yard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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