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单词 lee-rail
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lee-rail
a. Indicating that an object is on the lee-side of a vessel, or to leeward of some other object, e.g. lee-bowline, lee-division, lee-gunwale, lee-rail, lee-scupper, etc.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > rails or mouldings > at sides
lee-rail1513
waist1667
sheer-rail1769
rough-tree rail1780
foot rail1781
waist-rail1804
side rail1903
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. i. 30 Himself infangis the le scheit of the saill.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 28 Make ready your loufe howks and ley fagnes.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 16 Let go the Lee-Bowling of Fore-sail, and Weather-Braces.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 18 Set in the Lee-Braces.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 291 They could help to stay her with a Lee Oar.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 163 The Commodore ordered them to bring to under his lee-quarter.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxix. 250 He..commanded the men to carry the vessel's lee-gunwale under water.
1805 Log of H.M.S. Mars 21 Oct. in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. 165 (note) At daylight saw the Enemy's Fleet on our lee-beam.
1805 Log of H.M.S. Mars 21 Oct. in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. 166 (note) At 9.5 answered Victory's signal for the Mars to lead the lee division.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. xv. 223 Hauling in the slack of the lee-sheet.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xii. 174 O'Brien..told me never to mind, but to keep in the lee-scuppers.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xv. 241 She careened over so that her lee channels were under the water.
1834 F. Marryat Pacha I. v. 109 We descried land on the lee beam.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lee-fang, a rope rove through the cringle of a sail, for hauling in, so as to lace on a bonnet.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lee-gunwale under, a colloquial phrase for being sorely over-pressed, by canvas or other cause.
1893 F. M. Crawford Children of King I. 9 You would rather..take the lee earing too, in any gale.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 188 She cuddled her lee~rail down to the crashing blue.
1913 J. London Let. 20 Nov. (1966) 410 Sailing with lee-rail continually buried.
1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 132 Lee rail awash, with, heeled well over.
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