单词 | to carry, cross, crowd, hoist, lower, make, set, shorten, strike sail |
释义 | > as lemmasto carry, cross, crowd, hoist, lower, make, set, shorten, strike (etc.) sail a. Sails collectively. Also figurative. Often in phrases to carry, cross, crowd, hoist, lower, make, set, shorten, strike (etc.) sail, for which see also those verbs. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > collectively sailc1385 canvas1609 linensa1640 cloth1651 white wings1778 clothing1798 muslin1822 sailage1889 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > support (an amount of) sail [verb (intransitive)] to carry sail1592 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Cleopatra. 654 Fleth ek the queen, withal hire porpere sayl. a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 1426 I Rede, we take down sayle & Rowe. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccix The kynges shyp was good with sayle. 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. v. sig. Piii It ought to have sufficed to have revoked and made hym cross saile from the pursute of so bad an adventure. 1592 W. Raleigh Sea-mans Triumph sig. B2v Night comminge on, they hulled almost the whole nighte, or carried very little saile. 1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East iv. ii. sig. H4 You carrie to much saile for your small barke. 1720 J. Burchett Compl. Hist. Trans. at Sea v. xiii. 641 The Adventure..stood away with all the Sail she could carry. 1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 65 The Admiral..carried all sail. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert ii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 53 Every way qualified to bear me through the cross currents of the court by main pull of oar and press of sail. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxi. 119 No one could say that he was slow to carry sail. 1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 215 [He] snatch'd his rudder, and shook out more sail. 1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 155 Our captain was a handsome, dissipated, and ‘loud’ young man, with rather more sail than ballast, but good-natured and obliging. 1994 T. C. Gillmer Hist. Working Watercraft (ed. 2) vi. 217/1 The large ocean canoe of the Kwakiutl was highly decorated and in the late nineteenth century carried sail as well as the paddlers. < as lemmas |
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