| 单词 | to ease up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ease up c. to ease up intr. To become less burdensome. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > do or accomplish something easily [verb (intransitive)] > become less burdensome to ease up1939 1939 M. Spring Rice Working-class Wives iv. 79 Things will ease up a bit soon when the children get older. to ease up 9. Nautical. Often with away, down, off: to slacken (a rope, sail, etc.). to ease up: to come up handsomely with a tackle-fall. Also in forms of command, as ease away!, ease off!: slacken out a rope or tackle. ease her! (in a steam vessel): reduce the speed of the engine. ease the helm!: put the helm down a few spokes in a head sea. (Adm. Smyth.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)] > move gradually inch1599 edge1624 ease away!1627 etch1701 society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > work ropes or cables in specific ways windc1550 veer1590 veer1604 rousea1625 heave1626 overhaul1626 ease1627 pay1627 reeve1627 unbend1627 to come up1685 overhale1692 to pay away1769 surge1769 render1777 to pay out1793 to round down1793 to set upon ——1793 swig1794 veer1806 snake1815 to side out for a bend1831 rack1841 snub1841 the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [verb (transitive)] > make slack or not tense resolvea1398 remit?1518 slacken1611 unstretch1611 unstrain1616 ease1627 relieve1814 untighten1836 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 20 When the Shrouds are too stiffe, we say, ease them. 1692 Seaman's Gram. xvi. 76 To make her go more large, they say, Ease the Helm. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Ecoute Larguer..l'ecoute, to ease off the sheet. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple (new ed.) I. xv. 232 Ease her [sc. a ship] with a spoke or two when she sends; but be careful, or she'll take the wheel out of your hands. 1841 Punch 1 35 The dirty lad below, whose exclamation of ‘Ease her—stop her—one turn ahead’—may one day be destined to give the word of command on the quarter deck. 1859 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem II. xcv. 78 The present government might have stood its ground, if it had known how to ease off the rope handsomely. 1860 H. Stuart Novice's or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 8 Luff and ease off the fore-sheet. 1881 Daily Tel. 5 July 2/2 She ratched like a phantom to windward of us, and..eased away her sheets fore and aft. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 132 The earings are eased down. < as lemmas |
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