| 单词 | trysail gaff |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrysail gaff A small fore-and-aft sail, set with a gaff, and sometimes with a boom, on the fore- or mainmast, or on a small supplementary mast abaft either of these. Also attributive, as trysail gaff, trysail mast, trysail mizzen, trysail sheet. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > trysail try1665 trysail1769 spencer1840 storm-trysail1851 storm-spencer1857 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Snow When the sloops of war are rigged as snows, they are furnished with a horse, which answers the purpose of the trysail-mast, the fore part of the sail being attached by rings to the said horse. 1794 Riggings & Seamanship I. 83 A trysail, used instead of a mizen,..is extended towards the stern, and..fastened by hoops round a small mast, called a trysail mast, fixed near the aft-side of the main-mast in a block of wood in the quarter deck. 1810 J. Dessiou Moore's New Pract. Navigator (ed. 18) 290 Trey-sail. A small sail used by brigs and cutters in blowing weather. 1832 J. Guy Pocket Cycl. 402 A small mast, reaching up into the maintop, to which a tricesail mizen is attached. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iv. 16 We..hauled up the mainsail and trysail. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast ix. 22 Trysail gaff [see gaff n.1 2]. 1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. II. xvii. 259 We saw her..lying-to under trysails. < as lemmas |
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