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单词 drabler
释义 drabbler, drabler Naut.|ˈdræblə(r)|
[f. drabble v., in reference to its position.]
An additional piece of canvas, laced to the bottom of the bonnet of a sail, to give it greater depth.
a1592Greene & Lodge Looking Glass Wks. (Rtldg.) 134/2 Then scantled we our sails with speedy hands, And took our drablers from our bonnets.1645Heywood Fort. by Land iv. Wks. 1874 VI. 416 Lace your drablers on.1708Motteux Rabelais iv. lxiii. (1737) 256 To our Sails we had added Drablers.1851Kipping Sailmaking (ed. 2) 182 Drabbler.1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Drabler, a piece of canvas laced on the bonnet of a sail to give it more drop..used when both course and bonnet are not deep enough.
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