单词 | maintop bowline |
释义 | > as lemmasmaintop bowline General attributive (sometimes with the sense ‘belonging to the maintopsail’), as maintop bowline, maintop-man, maintop shroud, etc. ΚΠ 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 14 The maine top shroudes. 1781 T. Pasley Jrnl. 3 Dec. in Private Sea Jrnls. (1931) 208 I appeal to yourselves whether you have not heard the constant call of..main Topmen sound in your Ears more than once..every watch. a1809 R. M. Wilson Jrnl. (modernized text) in H. G. Thursfield Five Naval Jrnls. (1951) 245 The fore and aft maintopmen when at sea look out at their different mastheads. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. x. 172 Let go the main-top bowling. 1856 C. Nordhoff Man-of-war Life 93 One of my messmates, a maintopman, cut me out a frock. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Main-top Bowline, the bowline of the main-topsail. 1882 Standard 1 Dec. 3/6 There were no maintopmen on deck. 1908 Man. Seamanship (Admiralty) I. i. 17 Each watch is divided into four parts of the ship:– Forecastlemen, Foretopmen, Maintopmen, Quarterdeckmen. 1983 P. O'Brian Treason's Harbour vii. 209 Then came the Surprises with their officers, forecastlemen in front, then foretopmen, maintopmen and afterguard and then the baggage-train. < as lemmas |
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