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单词 stud-sail
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stud-sailn.

Brit. /ˈstʌdseɪl/, /ˈstʌdsl/, U.S. /ˈstədˌseɪl/, /ˈstəds(ə)l/
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: studdingsail n.
Etymology: Apparently shortened < studdingsail n. Compare earlier stunsail n.
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.
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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).
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