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

† to recover the wind of: to get windward of; (also figurative) to get the better of. Cf. wind n.¹ 3b. Obsolete.

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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > get or keep weather gauge of

to have the weather of1526

to gain, get, or take the wind of1563

get1600

to give, have the wind of1600

to recover the wind of1604

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1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 334 Why doe you goe about to recouer the wind of mee.

a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 30 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) These hoyes, who will easily recover the wind of any other ships.

1739 C. Jenkins Eng.'s Triumph 60 The next Morning the first Fight happen'd, the English Ships that were got out of the Harbour, to the number of an hundred, which had recovered the Wind of the Spaniards, making Onset.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. xv. 350 If they [sc. servants] effect anything like decent remorse, and hope you will pass it over, all the while they are probably trying to recover the wind of you.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xx She is a race ship, and if we can but recover the wind of her [etc.].

单词	to recover the wind of
释义	> as lemmas to recover the wind of † to recover the wind of: to get windward of; (also figurative) to get the better of. Cf. wind n.¹ 3b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > get or keep weather gauge of to have the weather of1526 to gain, get, or take the wind of1563 get1600 to give, have the wind of1600 to recover the wind of1604 weather-gauge1892 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 334 Why doe you goe about to recouer the wind of mee. View more context for this quotation a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 30 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) These hoyes, who will easily recover the wind of any other ships. 1739 C. Jenkins Eng.'s Triumph 60 The next Morning the first Fight happen'd, the English Ships that were got out of the Harbour, to the number of an hundred, which had recovered the Wind of the Spaniards, making Onset. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. xv. 350 If they [sc. servants] effect anything like decent remorse, and hope you will pass it over, all the while they are probably trying to recover the wind of you. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xx She is a race ship, and if we can but recover the wind of her [etc.]. extracted from recoverv.¹ < as lemmas
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