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单词 buntline
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Definition of buntline in English:

buntline

noun ˈbʌntlʌɪnˈbəntlīn
  • A line for restraining the loose centre of a sail while it is furled.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was soon taught how to pull through buntlines and gasket the sails during setting and furling sail and I soon became an integral part of the deck team during these exercises.
    • As soon as each sail was hauled up and the bunt made, the jigger was bent on to the slack of the buntlines, and the bunt triced up, on deck.
    • Unlike today there were no buntlines, no deck-based cables for shortening or taking in sail.
    • In this case, sweating and tailing the main course clew and buntlines.
    • Max MacLeod made the trip on the Jean de la Lune and found the experience bracing: Let go buntlines and clews!
    • The Buntline Hitch is used to tie a buntline to a square sail.
    • Eagle has a pin for every line, but in a pinch, we could have gotten by with some lines doubled up, such as the buntlines on the royals, t'gallants, and topsails.
    • Reporter, Claire Moriarty, finds herself all at sea with words such as gallant, buntlines and spanker.
    • The Buntline Hitch was originally employed to secure the buntlines to the foot of the square sails.
    • As one Coast Guard cadet said, ‘You're up in the rigging in a storm, the sail's flapping in your face, it's pitch dark, and somebody yells to clear the foreroyal buntlines.’
    • Each sail has a halyard, downhaul and port and starboard sheets, and the eight square sails have three or four buntlines and two clewlines apiece.
    • When setting squaresails, don't put the buntlines back onto the belaying pins until the topmen have finished overhauling and are back on deck.
    • Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off.
    • To stow the sail the sheets are released and the clewlines and buntlines are pulled tight.
    • Use the slipped buntline where you need to hitch to a very large object where a slipped Sailor's Hitch for a quick-release hitch would prove unwieldy.
    • The sail was then gathered in fold by means of clewlines and buntlines.
    • Tacks and sheets are shackled, and the clew-garnets are lashed to the clews; when ready, man the reef-tackles, leechlines, and buntlines, and clew-garnets, and walk all the gear up together.
    • This made the combined load of the yard and the sail land on the fore spreader, where the buntlines are fastened.
    • In reality, the buntlines would not be visible from astern since they run on the foreside of the sails.
    • The 4-8 tightens braces and halyards that may have gone slack overnight and usually sees to re-nipping the buntlines.
 
 

Definition of buntline in US English:

buntline

nounˈbəntlīn
  • A line for restraining the loose center of a sail while it is furled.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was soon taught how to pull through buntlines and gasket the sails during setting and furling sail and I soon became an integral part of the deck team during these exercises.
    • As one Coast Guard cadet said, ‘You're up in the rigging in a storm, the sail's flapping in your face, it's pitch dark, and somebody yells to clear the foreroyal buntlines.’
    • To stow the sail the sheets are released and the clewlines and buntlines are pulled tight.
    • Eagle has a pin for every line, but in a pinch, we could have gotten by with some lines doubled up, such as the buntlines on the royals, t'gallants, and topsails.
    • Use the slipped buntline where you need to hitch to a very large object where a slipped Sailor's Hitch for a quick-release hitch would prove unwieldy.
    • In reality, the buntlines would not be visible from astern since they run on the foreside of the sails.
    • When setting squaresails, don't put the buntlines back onto the belaying pins until the topmen have finished overhauling and are back on deck.
    • The Buntline Hitch is used to tie a buntline to a square sail.
    • The sail was then gathered in fold by means of clewlines and buntlines.
    • As soon as each sail was hauled up and the bunt made, the jigger was bent on to the slack of the buntlines, and the bunt triced up, on deck.
    • Unlike today there were no buntlines, no deck-based cables for shortening or taking in sail.
    • Max MacLeod made the trip on the Jean de la Lune and found the experience bracing: Let go buntlines and clews!
    • Reporter, Claire Moriarty, finds herself all at sea with words such as gallant, buntlines and spanker.
    • The 4-8 tightens braces and halyards that may have gone slack overnight and usually sees to re-nipping the buntlines.
    • Tacks and sheets are shackled, and the clew-garnets are lashed to the clews; when ready, man the reef-tackles, leechlines, and buntlines, and clew-garnets, and walk all the gear up together.
    • This made the combined load of the yard and the sail land on the fore spreader, where the buntlines are fastened.
    • In this case, sweating and tailing the main course clew and buntlines.
    • The Buntline Hitch was originally employed to secure the buntlines to the foot of the square sails.
    • Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off.
    • Each sail has a halyard, downhaul and port and starboard sheets, and the eight square sails have three or four buntlines and two clewlines apiece.
 
 
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