| 单词 | gybing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈgybing ˈgybing n. the action of the verb. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [noun] > methods of going about stayinga1618 boxing1766 box-hauling1769 gybing1769 wearing1769 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. T3v Gybing, the act of shifting any boom-sail from one side of the mast to the other. 1872 Daily News 12 Aug. 2/4 A seaman, told to ‘stand by’ the preventive back stay in readiness for gybing, had let it go. 1963 Times 31 May 5/1 Inexorably, Shadow sailed past to leeward, where there was still some wind and, though Wildfire did at last get moving again, Shadow was ahead at the gybing mark. < as lemmas |
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