单词 | shake something out |
释义 | shake something out1Get rid of or abandon an attitude or practice: we are going to shake out the old attitudes 2 Sailing Unwind or untie a reef to increase the area of a sail.Indeed, given his own preferences, Holderman thought he might actually have reduced sail, or at least left the night's reefs in rather than shaking them out, if only to give himself a little more time to avoid any ice his lookouts spotted. See parent entry: shake |
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