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单词 to clap on a wind
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to clap on (or by) a wind
b. Nautical. to clap on (or by) a wind: to bring the ship's head closer to windward, sail nearer to the wind. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > luff or turn to windward
luff1390
to spring one's luff1591
to clap on (or by) a wind1627
to close the wind1673
to haul the (her, our, etc.) wind1726
to come up1743
to throw (a ship) up in (also into, on) the wind1750
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 57 If hee clap close by a wind.
1673 Relation Re-taking St. Helena 4 They clapped by a Wind, and We after them.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4422/7 They clapp'd again upon a Wind and left us.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World x. 307 Fearing she was one of the Enemy's men of war, I clapp'd on a wind.
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