单词 | spritsail yarding |
释义 | † spritsail yardingn. Nautical slang. Obsolete. The action of disabling a shark, dogfish, etc., by thrusting a spar or piece of wood through its gills or other vulnerable parts. Cf. spritsail-yard v. ΚΠ 1818 E. Chappell Voy. Newfoundland & Labrador i. 16 The barbarous fishermen..have facetiously styled this operation, the ‘sprit-sail yarding of a hallibut’. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 646 Sprit-sail yarding, a cruelty in which some fishermen wreak vengeance on sharks, dog-fish, etc., that encroach on their baits, and foul their nets. 1910 Trans. Lit. & Hist. Soc. Quebec 28 54 ‘Spritsail yarding’ is passing a spar through the shark's gills to prevent its sinking after being thrown back into the sea. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019). < |
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