| 单词 | to wing out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wing out b. intransitive. to wing out: to set a sail on a boom projecting sideways. Hence winged out or wung out, = wing-and-wing adj. at wing n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1867 G. E. Clark Seven Years of Sailor's Life i. 14 Here was I, deep-loaded, winged out, and oft-times flying before the winter blast. 1890 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wung out. 1907 Rudder Nov. 827/2 On rounding, the schooners winged out; but..the wind came out of East of South, and they jibed their foresails and trimmed sheets a little. 1956 A. F. Loomis ‘Hotspur’ Story 109 Thither we sailed, main~sail to starboard and staysail wung out. 1956 A. F. Loomis ‘Hotspur’ Story 214 The wung-out schooner which we had noticed earlier in the afternoon lost the race. 1969 H. Horwood Newfoundland x. 71 Tearing down the outside passages with sails ‘wung out’ before a roaring nor'-wester. < as lemmas |
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