| 单词 | taut-rigged |
| 释义 | > as lemmastaut-rigged a. Adverbial with past participles, as taut-rigged, taut-stretched, etc. ΚΠ 1803 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (1940) II. 404 Being taught Stowed between two fat fellows, I slep[t]. 1829 D. Jerrold Black-ey'd Susan i. i. 15 There's not so fine, so noble, so taut-rigged a fellow in His Majesty's navy. 1862 C. P. Smyth Three Cities in Russia II. iv. vii. 511 The large American frigate..filled half the panorama before us with its display of taut-pulled roping. 1908 H. M. Sylvester Olde Pemaquid (1909) 139 The faint halloo of two sailors leaning over the rail of a taut-rigged schooner. 1943 D. Gascoyne Poems 1937–42 42 The sky's a faded blue and taut-stretched flag Tenting the quadrangle. 2001 Harper's Mag. Jan. 39/1 Pressure on the neck, and from the downward force of the bridge feet beneath the taut-stretched strings, had forced the f-holes into less than perfect symmetry. < as lemmas |
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