单词 | maintopmast-stay |
释义 | > as lemmasmaintopmast-stay General attributive, as maintopmast-backstay, maintopmast-head, maintopmast-rigging, maintopmast-stay, maintopmast-yard, etc. ΚΠ 1652 Answer Parl. Three Papers 5 A Holland Fleet of Men of War consisting of two and forty Ships, one whereof had a Flag on the main-top-Mast head. a1667 P. Mundy Trav. (1919) III. i. xxi. 26 Next Morning Wee could Not see her from Our Mayne topmast head. 1672 London Gaz. No. 683/3 3 English Seamen ran up to his Main-top-mast-head, and took down his Pendant. a1700 Addit. MS 5008 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (1889) I Ned Gylman took an alcatrash on the mayn topmast yerd. 1724 J. Kelly Mod. Navigator's Compl. Tutor 44 Main-top-mast-back-stay..Main-top-mast-stay. 1756 in J. S. McLennan Louisbourg (1918) 212 He made Sigl. as we suppose for Assistance by hoisting a white Flag at His Main Topmast Backstay. 1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. II. 157 He is said to have passed through the Channel, with a broom at his main-top-mast head. 1801 Knight & Mason IV. 44 And their main-top-mast-stay. 1866 Daily Tel. 6 Feb. 3/3 At eight o'clock the maintopmast-staysail was carried away. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Nov. 7/2 An able seaman..fell from the maintopmast rigging. < as lemmas |
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