| 单词 | to lie muzzled |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lie muzzled a. transitive. to lie muzzled: (of a ship or its crew) to remain inactive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > be or remain inactive to lie muzzledc1643 to sit on (also upon) her anchor1871 c1643 N. Boteler Dialogues (1929) (modernized text) 221 When..a ship's main-course is filled with wind, and her foresail brought on the back stays, whereby she lies and makes little or no way in the sea, she is said to lie muzzled. 1673 J. Narbrough Jrnl. 1 Feb. in R. C. Anderson Jrnls. & Narr. Third Dutch War (1946) 252 I lay muzzled, all the fleet near me, for a clear to make the land. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iv. 83 We saw a Ship..: we lay muzled to let her come up with us, for we supposed her to be a Spanish Ship. 1745 Gentleman's Mag. July 352 The Lion's rigging being cut to pieces,..all her lower masts and topmasts shot thro' in many places, so that she lay muzzled in the sea, and could do nothing with her sails. < as lemmas |
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