英语词汇“tack about”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. intransitive. To shift the tacks and brace the yards, and turn the ship's head to the wind, so that she shall sail at the same angle to the wind on the other side; to go about in this way; also tack about. Hence, to make a run or course obliquely against the wind; to proceed by a series of such courses; to beat to windward: often said of the ship itself.

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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > tack or make tacks

to make boards1533

tack1557

traverse1568

ply1589

board1627

tackle1632

busk1635

trip1687

to beat abouta1774

to come about1777

to make short boards1777

1557 in A. Jenkinson Voy. & Trav. (1886) I. 8 The rest of the shippes shall tacke or take of their sailes in such sort as they may meete and come together, in as good order as may be.

c1579 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlviii. 140 Tak on ȝour babert luif abuird.

1595 Drake's Voy. (1849) 22 They had the winde of us, but we soone regained it upon them, which made them tacke about.

1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 19 His Ketch Tackt to and fro, the scanty wind to snatch.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 163 Which obliged us to tack and stand to the N.W.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 217 These..could veer and tack with great celerity.

1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Navigation ii. v. §55. 26 When the wind blows from any point within six points of the bearing of a port for which a vessel is bound, she must tack or ply to windward.

1873 Daily News 21 Aug. 5/2 The little craft was caught by a sudden squall when tacking, or, as sailors say, ‘in stays,’ taken aback, and capsized in a moment.

1886 E. L. Bynner Agnes Surriage i. 16 Two or three..ketches were tacking up before the brisk off-shore breeze to make the anchorage.

单词	tack about
释义	> as lemmas tack about a. intransitive. To shift the tacks and brace the yards, and turn the ship's head to the wind, so that she shall sail at the same angle to the wind on the other side; to go about in this way; also tack about. Hence, to make a run or course obliquely against the wind; to proceed by a series of such courses; to beat to windward: often said of the ship itself. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > tack or make tacks to make boards1533 tack1557 traverse1568 ply1589 board1627 tackle1632 busk1635 trip1687 to beat abouta1774 to come about1777 to make short boards1777 1557 in A. Jenkinson Voy. & Trav. (1886) I. 8 The rest of the shippes shall tacke or take of their sailes in such sort as they may meete and come together, in as good order as may be. c1579 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlviii. 140 Tak on ȝour babert luif abuird. 1595 Drake's Voy. (1849) 22 They had the winde of us, but we soone regained it upon them, which made them tacke about. 1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 19 His Ketch Tackt to and fro, the scanty wind to snatch. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 163 Which obliged us to tack and stand to the N.W. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 217 These..could veer and tack with great celerity. 1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Navigation ii. v. §55. 26 When the wind blows from any point within six points of the bearing of a port for which a vessel is bound, she must tack or ply to windward. 1873 Daily News 21 Aug. 5/2 The little craft was caught by a sudden squall when tacking, or, as sailors say, ‘in stays,’ taken aback, and capsized in a moment. 1886 E. L. Bynner Agnes Surriage i. 16 Two or three..ketches were tacking up before the brisk off-shore breeze to make the anchorage. extracted from tackv.¹ < as lemmas
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