英语词汇“to claw the wind”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

7. Nautical (intransitive) ‘To beat or turn to windward from a lee-shore, so as to be at sufficient distance from it to avoid shipwreck’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). Also to claw off (the shore, or from the shore, or absol.), quasi-trans. to claw it off. So (transitive) to claw the wind.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > act expeditiously

to make (it) short1490

dispatch1581

to be brief1609

to claw it off1615

to dance Barnaby1664

society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > strive or make way against wind > off a lee shore

to claw off1615

to make a claw to windward1841

1615 T. Roe Embassy to Great Mogul 24 Aug. (1899) I. 36 Beeing then a Lee shoare, in such extremities of wynd, ther wilbe noe Possibilitye to Claw it off.

a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) ii. 260/1 Being near the Land and a Gale of Wind coming off from Sea..a Ship cannot claw it off.

a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) ii. 302/1 They could not claw off the Shore.

1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 352 When Shipping come into the Bay between the Spurn and Winterton, they can hardly claw it of (as Sea men phrase it) with Northerly and Easterly Winds.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Ranger le vent, to claw the wind, or haul close to the wind.

1777 J. Cook Jrnl. 3 Apr. (1967) III. i. 91 His Ship could better claw of a lee shore than mine.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xv. 230 We were forced to carry on at all risks, that we might claw off shore.

1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. v. 51 We were off the Texel..with the coast under our lee, clawing off under storm canvass.

1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Feb. 217 I..began to claw the boat away from the danger.

1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean xii. 202 An inch at a time, as you might say, she [sc. the ship] was clawing off a lee shore.

单词	to claw the wind
释义	> as lemmas to claw the wind 7. Nautical (intransitive) ‘To beat or turn to windward from a lee-shore, so as to be at sufficient distance from it to avoid shipwreck’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). Also to claw off (the shore, or from the shore, or absol.), quasi-trans. to claw it off. So (transitive) to claw the wind. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > act expeditiously to make (it) short1490 dispatch1581 to be brief1609 to claw it off1615 to dance Barnaby1664 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > strive or make way against wind > off a lee shore to claw off1615 to make a claw to windward1841 1615 T. Roe Embassy to Great Mogul 24 Aug. (1899) I. 36 Beeing then a Lee shoare, in such extremities of wynd, ther wilbe noe Possibilitye to Claw it off. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) ii. 260/1 Being near the Land and a Gale of Wind coming off from Sea..a Ship cannot claw it off. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) ii. 302/1 They could not claw off the Shore. 1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 352 When Shipping come into the Bay between the Spurn and Winterton, they can hardly claw it of (as Sea men phrase it) with Northerly and Easterly Winds. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Ranger le vent, to claw the wind, or haul close to the wind. 1777 J. Cook Jrnl. 3 Apr. (1967) III. i. 91 His Ship could better claw of a lee shore than mine. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xv. 230 We were forced to carry on at all risks, that we might claw off shore. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. v. 51 We were off the Texel..with the coast under our lee, clawing off under storm canvass. 1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Feb. 217 I..began to claw the boat away from the danger. 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean xii. 202 An inch at a time, as you might say, she [sc. the ship] was clawing off a lee shore. extracted from clawv. < as lemmas
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