| 单词 | to sag to leeward |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sag to leeward a. Nautical. Of a ship or boat: To drift, be carried out of the intended course. Chiefly in the phrase to sag to leeward. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > drop away from direct course to fall off1569 yaw1584 sag1633 bag1836 to break off1867 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 93 [In tacking] we did sagge upon the maine rand of Ice. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (1780) Sagging to leeward, the movement by which a ship makes a considerable lee-way, or is driven far to leeward of the course whereon she apparently sails. It is generally expressed of heavy-sailing vessels. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 256* To Sag to leeward, to make considerable lee-way. 1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 726 The want of actual headway making the Indiaman sag dead away to leeward. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxix. 287 McGary hung upon his oar, and the boat, slowly but noiselessly sagging ahead. 1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 206 We're sagging south on the Long Trail. < as lemmas |
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