单词 | stud-sail |
释义 | stud-sailn. Nautical. On a square-rigged ship: an additional sail set at the side of a principal sail to increase a vessel's speed in a fair wind; = studdingsail n. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > studding sail studdingsailc1550 steering sail1669 stunsail1762 stud-sail1780 1780 London Chron. 19 Feb. 2/1 Putting out his stud-sails, he got clear of them, and pursued his voyage home. 1787 Falconer's Shipwreck (rev. ed.) i. 37 The swelling stud-sails [1762, 1785, 1789, 1792 stu'n-sails] now their wings extend. 1851 B'ham. & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. Oct. 192 With only a flying stud sail of green boughs at the end of it. 1857 Mercantile Marine Mag. (1858) 5 9 In stud-sails and all small sails. 1945 E. J. Pratt Coll. Poems 176 Her jibs and royals bellying out, With studsail, staysail, spinnaker. 1973 Economist 22 Dec. 97/1 Studsails cannot have been used often. 2011 B. Markovits Childish Loves (2012) 331 I have always liked being at sea, though I pretend to know nothing about such deep matters as stud-sails, lanyards, spanker booms, deadeyes and lignum vitae. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。