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单词 to bring by the lee
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to bring by the lee
a. Nautical. To cause to come or go into a certain position or direction; chiefly in phrases: to bring by the board (see board n. 12b); to bring by the lee (see lee n.1); bring to the wind (see wind n.1).
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > cause to suffer shipwreck [verb (transitive)] > lose (spars, sails, or rigging) > break off masts or spars
to bring by the board1695
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > luff or turn to windward
luffa1616
to throw (a ship) up in (also into, on) the wind1750
bring to the wind1836
round1852
1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 437 The French..had his main mast brought by the board before he struck.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 226 Her Mainmast and Foremast were brought by the Board; that is to say, broken short off.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. iii. 74 Gascoigne went to the helm, brought the boat up to the wind.
1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 293 I was awoke by the ship being brought to the wind.
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(to bring, fall) by the lee
b. Nautical phrases. †at lee: (a) windbound; (b) under shelter. †(to bring, fall) by the lee: to leeward; also figurative. †(to bring, lay, lie) upon the lee: with sails aback. on, under (the) lee: to leeward = alee adv.
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society > travel > travel by water > [phrase] > windbound
at lee1597
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > on the sheltered side
beneath, under the lee (of)c1540
on, upon, to (the) leeward (ofc1550
(to bring, fall) by the lee1597
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > with sails set [phrase] > aback
at staysa1586
(to bring, lay, lie) upon the lee1597
1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 33 The ship on hull, the helme on lee.
1607 J. Marston What you Will ii. i, in Wks. (1856) I. 238 Shoot him through and through with a jest; make him lye by the lee.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bouter vent en penne, to bring a ship vpon the Lee.
a1618 W. Raleigh Apol. Voy. Guiana 7 in Judicious & Sel. Ess. (1650) The Thunder..by the negligence of her Master, was at Lee in the Thames.
1630 J. Taylor Fight at Sea in Wks. iii. 34/2 They..passed from vs to lay their ships by the Lee.
a1643 W. Monson Naval Tracts v, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. (1704) III. 507/1 The Ship lay upon the Lee; and..the Master called with the Whistle to fill the Sails.
1666 London Gaz. No. 59/2 An Hollands Man of War..whom she fought very bravely, and at last brought by the Lee, but had not Men enough to board her.
1667 London Gaz. No. 120/1 One of them..was so warmly received with a broadside, that he immediately fell by the Lee.
1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xvi. 79 A Ship lies by the Lee, that is, has all her sails lying flat against the Masts and Shrouds.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) To leeward, ‘We saw a fleet under the lee’, and, ‘We saw a fleet to-leeward’, are synonimous expressions.
1825 A. Cunningham Wet Sheet & Flowing Sea (song) i Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 171 Yonder her nearest coast fate wills thee to leave on the lee.
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