英语词汇“flowing sheet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Nautical. flowing sail, flowing sheet. (See quots. 1769, 1841-4 at sense 1a, and cf. flowing n. 3.)

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1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. ii. 130 We were pleasingly surprized..to see her open the N.W. point of the bay with a flowing sail.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. S2 A ship is therefore said to have a flowing sheet when the wind crosses the line of her course nearly at right angles.

1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 91 With flowing sails..They seek their station on the western seas.

1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 105 Flowing Sheet when a vessel has the wind free, and the lee clews eased off.

figurative.1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xiii. 213 Didn't you say..that the captain had paid it [sc. a bill] with a flowing sheet?1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. clxi. 174 To wait till the folly could be put down with a flowing sail.

单词	flowing sheet
释义	> as lemmas flowing sheet b. Nautical. flowing sail, flowing sheet. (See quots. 1769, 1841-4 at sense 1a, and cf. flowing n. 3.) ΚΠ 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. ii. 130 We were pleasingly surprized..to see her open the N.W. point of the bay with a flowing sail. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. S2 A ship is therefore said to have a flowing sheet when the wind crosses the line of her course nearly at right angles. 1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 91 With flowing sails..They seek their station on the western seas. 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 105 Flowing Sheet when a vessel has the wind free, and the lee clews eased off. figurative.1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xiii. 213 Didn't you say..that the captain had paid it [sc. a bill] with a flowing sheet?1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. clxi. 174 To wait till the folly could be put down with a flowing sail. extracted from flowingadj. < as lemmas
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