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单词 to lie the course
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to lie the course
b. To steer in a (specified) direction. Also (quasi-transitive) to lie the course: (of a ship) to have her head in the direction wished. to lie at hull: see hull n.2 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction
steer1340
stem1487
capea1522
lie1574
put1578
bear1587
rut1588
haul1589
fetch1590
standa1594
to stand along1600
to bear away1614
work1621
to lay up1832
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > make desired course
to lie the course1574
to lay one's (or a) course1669
1574 W. Bourne Regim. for Sea (1577) xix. 51 a If the ship haue had often trauerse by the meanes of contrary windes, so that she could not lie hir course.
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. v. 43 Whiles his false broker lyeth in the winde.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 28 They could not lye near the Wind.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. v. 342 The proas..are capable of lying much nearer the wind than any other vessel hitherto known.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Vent de bouline The ship cannot lie her course without being close-hauled.
1800 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 189 The Success being to leeward, Captain Peard..lay across his hawse.
1892 H. M. Doughty Our Wherry in Wendish Lands 123 The water~way we now entered..was scarcely four feet deep..and that only in the middle. Luckily we could just lie it.
1892 H. M. Doughty Our Wherry in Wendish Lands 301 A turn enabled us to lie our course, and up the sail went.
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