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

e. intransitive. Nautical. Of a sailing vessel: to sail in a particular course or direction, to make sail; esp. to sail against the wind, to tack. Also of a person: to sail a vessel in this way. Now esp. in to work to windward. Cf. to work up 4a at Phrasal verbs 1.

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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

1621 F. Cartwright Life, Confession & Heartie Repentance sig. C2 The Sea was exceeding high, nor could the ship worke, being euer foule of one Ship or another.

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xii. 204 The shipping..had direction to worke about to another Creake.

1704 London Gaz. No. 4054/1 Perceiving..that they wrought from us, we followed them..with all the Sail we could make.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. viii. 223 She had sprung her fore-top-mast, which had disabled her from working to windward.

1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 116 A little before noon we weighed, and worked up the river.

1790 W. Bligh Narr. Mutiny on Bounty 78 I endeavoured to work to windward, but we were obliged to take to our oars again.

1819 H. M. Brackenridge Voy. S. Amer. I. i. 113 A light breeze springing up from the land, we worked in towards the shore.

1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 2 We reached down the river, and, on the ebb, worked out of the Rock Channel.

1836 F. Marryat Pirate xvi, in Pirate & Three Cutters 184 The Comus..worked, in short tacks, outside the reef.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxiii. 184 We are working, i.e., beating our way in the narrow leads..between the main ice and the drift.

1914 Cent. Mag. June 178/2 The yacht worked northward.

1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 899/3 He wanted a chance of seeing a palari working to windward in bad conditions.

1993 E. A. Proulx Shipping News xiii. 115 You got a shoal draft boat, my boy, she has to work to windward.

单词	to work to windward
释义	> as lemmas to work to windward e. intransitive. Nautical. Of a sailing vessel: to sail in a particular course or direction, to make sail; esp. to sail against the wind, to tack. Also of a person: to sail a vessel in this way. Now esp. in to work to windward. Cf. to work up 4a at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ 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 1621 F. Cartwright Life, Confession & Heartie Repentance sig. C2 The Sea was exceeding high, nor could the ship worke, being euer foule of one Ship or another. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xii. 204 The shipping..had direction to worke about to another Creake. 1704 London Gaz. No. 4054/1 Perceiving..that they wrought from us, we followed them..with all the Sail we could make. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. viii. 223 She had sprung her fore-top-mast, which had disabled her from working to windward. 1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 116 A little before noon we weighed, and worked up the river. 1790 W. Bligh Narr. Mutiny on Bounty 78 I endeavoured to work to windward, but we were obliged to take to our oars again. 1819 H. M. Brackenridge Voy. S. Amer. I. i. 113 A light breeze springing up from the land, we worked in towards the shore. 1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 2 We reached down the river, and, on the ebb, worked out of the Rock Channel. 1836 F. Marryat Pirate xvi, in Pirate & Three Cutters 184 The Comus..worked, in short tacks, outside the reef. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxiii. 184 We are working, i.e., beating our way in the narrow leads..between the main ice and the drift. 1914 Cent. Mag. June 178/2 The yacht worked northward. 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 899/3 He wanted a chance of seeing a palari working to windward in bad conditions. 1993 E. A. Proulx Shipping News xiii. 115 You got a shoal draft boat, my boy, she has to work to windward. extracted from workv. < as lemmas
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