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单词 royal yard
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royal yard
14. Nautical. Of or relating to a royal mast or royal sail, esp. in royal yard. See also royal yardman at yardman n.2, and cf. royal mast n., royal sail n. at Compounds 1, top-royal n. at top n.1 and adj. Compounds 2b(b).
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1780 Advt. in Mariner's Mirror (1962) 48 227 Who would enter for a small craft whilst the Leander, the finest and fastest sailing frigate in the world..has room for one hundred active smart seamen and a dozen stout lads for royal yard men.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 135 Sky-scrapers. These sails are triangular... The foot spreads half of the royal yards.
1839 Knickerbocker 13 42 Send him some ratlinstuff, so that he can set up brace-backstays abaft, and cross his royal yards, and call all hands up anchor.
1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 11 The royal shrouds..are fitted like those of the top-gallant masts.
1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 146/1 Royal yard, the next above the topgallant yard.
1986 N. A. M. Rodger Wooden World (1988) i. 27 Upper yardmen, the youngest of the topmen, often no more than older boys, worked on the topgallant and royal yards.
2001 Sea Breezes 75 324/1 Stretched along the royal yard for instance, on a swaying and rolling sailing ship in the days of those hardy Cape Horn sailors.
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