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单词 to cut sail, one's sail
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to cut sail, one's sail
46. to cut sail, one's sail: see quot. 1692. ? Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > support (an amount of) sail [verb (intransitive)] > spread (more) sail > unfurl sail
to cut sail, one's sail1582
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 71 a The whole Fleete, hauing wayed, did then begin to cut and spread their sayles with a great pleasure.
1589 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 523 At which departing, in cutting the foresaile, a marueilous misfortune happened to one of the officers.
1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xvi. 76 Cut the Sail, that is unfurl it, and let it fall down.
1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
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