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

P12. Nautical. to show canvas: to spread sail to the wind. Now historical.

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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > support (an amount of) sail [verb (intransitive)] > spread (more) sail

to make saila1500

to make the tacklinga1500

to show canvas1773

1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere I. ii. ii. 551 The gusts off the land were so violent that, not daring to show any canvas, we lay to under our bare poles.

1838 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. Dec. 795 A strong gale from the eastward, to which, there was no showing canvas.

1867 C. Burney Boy's Man. Seamanship & Gunnery (ed. 5) 8 12 [denotes] Hurricane..to which she [sc. a ship] could show no canvas.

1901 W. O. Stoddard Montanye iv. 28 The Montauk also was beginning to show canvas but did not appear to be in any hurry.

1949 E. Sandoz Squire of Ravensmark xx. 173 Gerald caught sight of three more galleys and six smaller ships, called caravels, showing canvas.

2004 J. Stockwin Quarterdeck (2005) vi. 167 We scuds afore the westerly, that's undoubted, until we can show canvas and come about.

单词	to show canvas
释义	> as lemmas to show canvas P12. Nautical. to show canvas: to spread sail to the wind. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > support (an amount of) sail [verb (intransitive)] > spread (more) sail to make saila1500 to make the tacklinga1500 to show canvas1773 1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere I. ii. ii. 551 The gusts off the land were so violent that, not daring to show any canvas, we lay to under our bare poles. 1838 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. Dec. 795 A strong gale from the eastward, to which, there was no showing canvas. 1867 C. Burney Boy's Man. Seamanship & Gunnery (ed. 5) 8 12 [denotes] Hurricane..to which she [sc. a ship] could show no canvas. 1901 W. O. Stoddard Montanye iv. 28 The Montauk also was beginning to show canvas but did not appear to be in any hurry. 1949 E. Sandoz Squire of Ravensmark xx. 173 Gerald caught sight of three more galleys and six smaller ships, called caravels, showing canvas. 2004 J. Stockwin Quarterdeck (2005) vi. 167 We scuds afore the westerly, that's undoubted, until we can show canvas and come about. extracted from showv. < as lemmas
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