| 单词 | to try a-hull |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto try a-hull ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > support (an amount of) sail [verb (intransitive)] > lie to trya1584 to lie by1623 to lay by1697 to lie to1711 to lay to1798 1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. C The see..where shyppes by meane of wynd try from port to port.] a1584 S. Borough in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 315 When the barke had way, we cut the hawser, and so gat the sea to our friend, and tryed out all that day with our maine corse. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 34 Downe with the top-Mast: yare, lower, lower, bring her to Try with Maine-course. View more context for this quotation 1726 H. de Saumarez in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 427 We had hard Gales..and a distracted Sea, insomuch that we try'd under a double reef'd Mainsail, great Part of the Time. 1773 Life N. Frowde 122 We were obliged..to ly too, and let the Ship drive with the Tempest, and at length, to try a Hull. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Try, or Lie-to in a Gale, is by a judicious balance of canvas, to keep a ship's bow to the sea, and..prevent her rolling to windward in the trough of a sea. < as lemmas |
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