| 单词 | topsail sheet |
| 释义 | > as lemmastopsail sheet attributive and in other combinations, of or pertaining to the topsail, as topsail halyard, topsail sheet, topsail truss, topsail yard; carrying a topsail or topsails, as topsail barge, topsail schooner, topsail vessel; allowing a vessel to carry topsails, as topsail breeze, †topsail cole, topsail gale.With topsail cole cf. quots. under cool n.1 1. ΘΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > allowing specific sails to be carried topsail cole1390 loom1600 reef-topsail1693 topgallant1697 whole-sail1824 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind as means of propulsion > other topsail1390 side winda1398 quarter wind1523 quartern wind1592 elbow-winda1722 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 231 The wynd stod thanne noght amis Bot evene topseilcole it blew. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 338 Thei hadden wynd at wille tho, With topseilcole and forth they go. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 32 Hail on ȝour top sail scheitis vire..ȝour top sail trossis,..hail out the top sail boulene. 1673 London Gaz. No. 807/4 The Wind has been all this day between the South and the South-West, a fine Topsail Gale. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 109 Top-sail Yards [are]5/ 9 of the Main-yards.., the Top-gallant Yards 1/ 2 the Top-sail Yards. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 766 The number of top-sail vessels..is about 150. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast ii. 11 The topsail haliards had been let go. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Topsail-schooner, is full schooner-rigged, but carries a square-topsail on the foremast. < as lemmas |
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