单词 | to hoise sail |
释义 | > as lemmasto hoise sail a. Originally Nautical, and chiefly to hoise sail; often with up. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > support (an amount of) sail [verb (intransitive)] > spread (more) sail > raise sail or yards to hoise sail1490 sway1836 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > set or spread (sails) > raise (sail or yard) windc1275 to hoise sail1490 to seize upc1540 hoisen1553 tauntc1579 ride1880 up1890 α. β. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1555) 53 Hoyse up thy sayle.1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1555) 191 Then their anker they weyed in haste, And hoyst their sayle.?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.jv Some to howes the tope sayle dyde entre.?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.j Some howysed the mayne sayle.a1537 Batayle Egyngecourte (printed by J. Skot) A ij b They hoysed their sayles sadly a lofte A goodly syght it was to se.1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. F4v Eurilochus..willed his men perforce to hoyse him a shipboord.1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 207 We..hoissed sailes for Sidon.a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 148 They prepared A rotten carkasse of a Butt..There they hoyst vs To cry to th' Sea. View more context for this quotation1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. i. 624 Then launch, and hoise the Mast.1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xv. 353 They..straining at the halyards, hoised the sail.absolute.1685 in Roxburghe Ballads (1885) V. 544 We hoised and hast'ned up into the Straits.c1450 Pilgr. Sea Voy. 13 in Stac. Rome etc. 37 With ‘howe! hissa!’ then they [shipmen] cry, ‘What howe, mate! thow stondyst to ny, Thy felow may nat hale [= haul] the by’. Cf. also in quot. c1550 [see at heeze v.]. ] 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxxi. 117 They made the saylles to be hyssed vppe. 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) i. sig. A*.ii I tourne and hyse the cordes of the shyp. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 585/1 I hyse up the sayle, as shypmen do, je haulce. 1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Kodi ancor i vyny, hyce up an ancre. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 32 The marynalis began to heis vp the sail, cryand, heisau, heisau. < as lemmas |
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