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单词 all standing
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all standing
c. all standing.
(a) Nautical. With reference to a ship: fully rigged or equipped; without dismantling or unrigging.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > with sails set [phrase] > with all rigging standing
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1802 Naval Chron. 8 172 The Fisgard..was paid off all standing, directly recommissioned.
1884 Sat. Rev. 31 May 714/2 She beguiled the tedium of the run by gybing all standing..her main-boom went outside the strop on the second or third gybe.
1998 Yachts & Yachting 21 Aug. 89/2 As the leaders rounded the windward mark a gust hit and four or five boats either pitchpoled or came up all standing.
(b) Originally Nautical. figurative. Fully prepared and ready; esp. (with reference to sleeping) without taking off (many of) one's clothes. Now somewhat historical and rare.Also in to bring (a person) up all standing: to cause (a person) to stop suddenly or abruptly.
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all standing1837
1837 Southern Lit. Messenger Mar. 178/2 This reflection brought me up, as the sailors say, ‘all standing’.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxi. 231 The mate..turned in ‘all standing’, and was always on deck the moment he was called.
1879 H. Hartigan Stray Leaves 2nd Ser. 198 [They] gained their respective domiciles, and turned in ‘regimental’, or, as Jack has it, ‘all standing’, for their..last night's rest in Old England.
1903 A. Bennett Let. 27 Mar. (1966) 35 The close of the book, as it stands, will ‘bring him up all standing’.
1924 A. J. Small Frozen Gold i. 13 A spring..would take him from his chair, all-standing, sheer to the throat of the swaggering giant who held the gun.
2019 @OnlyRedNow 17 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 5 July 2021) I'm sleeping ‘all standing’ [Roy will know what that means] in case the courier shows up early.
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