transitive. To cover (a sail) thickly with oakum, rope yarn, or other loose material fastened on it, with the view of getting some of it sucked…
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| 释义 | society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > stop a leak in specific way (3) fother1789 transitive. To cover (a sail) thickly with oakum, rope yarn, or other loose material fastened on it, with the view of getting some of it sucked… to shut up1805 To close, prevent access to or exit from (a place, a house, shop, room, etc.); †to screen by an enclosure from (obsolete); Agriculture to close… to well the ship1820 transitive. Nautical. to well the ship: to build a partition within a ship in order to confine a leak (see quot. 1820). to well out: to isolate (a… |
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