| 单词 | yankee jib |
| 释义 | > as lemmasYankee jib Yankee jib n. (also Yankee jib topsail) a large jib topsail used in light winds, set on the topmast stay. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > jib or sail set on forestay > types of marabut1622 flying jib1711 storm-jiba1827 spitfire-jib1858 jib topsail1866 reaching foresail1901 reacher1903 jumbo1912 Yankee1912 Yankee jib1912 Genoa1932 Genoa jib1932 slave1934 quad1937 slave jib1948 masthead genoa1958 1904 B. Heckstall-Smith Dixon Kemp's Man. of Yacht & Boat Sailing (ed. 10) v. 94 The sheeting of a modern large jackyard topsail requires a master hand's attention, especially when it is fitted ‘Yankee fashion’, having three sheets, as very many now are—namely, the main topsail sheet, the outer and inner sheets on the ends of the jackyard.] 1912 B. Heckstall-Smith & E. Du Boulay Compl. Yachtsman vi. 152 A useful sail is the Yankee jib-topsail. This is the largest or balloon jib-topsail, and the modern and most efficient form of balloon jib-topsail is cut, like all modern head-sails should be, very high in the clew. 1928 Daily Mail 9 Aug. 19/6 There is a Yankee jib which, as one sail, covers more than the combined area of jib and foresail. 1939 U. Fox Crest of Wave 145 We had settled down with the large Yankee jib topsail set in the place of the double clewed jib. 1976 Yachts & Yachting 20 Aug. 339/3 At 30 knots across the deck she dropped her yankee jib and kept going under staysail and heavily reefed main. < as lemmas |
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