| 单词 | main-topgallant-sail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmain-topgallant-sail A topgallant situated just above the head of the maintopmast. Chiefly in compounds: main-topgallant-crosstree, main-topgallant-masthead, main-topgallant-sail, main-topgallant-yard, etc. main-topgallant-mast n. the mast above the maintopmast. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > yard > other yards sprityard1485 peggy1494 spritsail yard1514 topgallant yard1514 main-topgallant-yard1588 driver yard1757 square yards1769 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > topgallant sail(s) > on specific mast main-topgallant-sail1588 fore-topgallant-sail1669 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > topgallant mast > main-topgallant-mast main-topgallant-mast1693 1588 Surv. Ships in State Papers Domest. Elizabeth I (P.R.O.: SP 12/220) f. 54 The Revendge... A mayne topgallant saile made of an olde myzon. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 13 The maine top gallant sayle yeard. 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 912 Our Main Top-Gallant Mast was split in pieces. 1724 J. Kelly Mod. Navigator's Compl. Tutor 44 Main-top-gallant-yard. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. x. 239 One amongst the Captains..carries the royal standard of Spain at the main-top gallant mast-head. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. ii. xiv. 259 To hand the main top-gallant sail, in a storm, at midnight. 1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. II. 411 The man on the main-top-gallant-yard of the Rochester. 1856 E. B. Kelly Autobiogr. v. 36 On the voyage two men were knocked off the main-top-gallant-yard. 1876 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 153/1 On the main-mast we have the main-course or main-sail, main-top-sail, main-top-gallant-sail, and the main-royal. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxiv. 393 Wallen..had his jaw broken on the maintop-gallant crosstrees. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxv. 408 And the one I caught in the jaw on the main top-gallant? 1939 H. Hughes Through Mighty Seas x. 264 For the first time I saw preventer back-stays being rigged from the main top-gallant mast. 1986 B. Lopez Arctic Dreams Prol. 2 Young boys from town swarmed her rigging in quest of the traditional garland of sun-bleached ribbons, halfway up the main-topgallant mast. < as lemmas |
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