单词 | to make sail |
释义 | > as lemmasto make sail 71. transitive. Nautical. to make sail: (a) to spread a sail or sails; (hence) to start on a voyage; to set sail, to sail; (b) to spread additional sails in order to increase a ship's speed. Also †to make the tackling. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > set out on a voyage to go to seac900 to take the seac1275 to go or fere to (the) saila1375 sail1387 to make saila1500 to set sail1513 lance1526 launch1534 to put off1582 to put out?1587 to put forth1604 to come to sail1633 underweigh1891 to take sail1904 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 to make saila1500 to make the tacklinga1500 to show canvas1773 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 > make additional sail for speed to make sail1634 a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 4188 Now is the Maister..Vpon the sea, and sayle beganne to make. c1500 Pilgrims Sea-voyage 11 in F. J. Furnivall Stations of Rome (1867) i. 37 The mastyr commaundeth..To hys shypmen..To dresse hem sone about the mast, Theyr takelyng to make. 1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 15 We mad sayle with scace Wynde. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. i. 19 Anchises..Bad ws mak saill and follow destany. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 182 Both rowing and making large saile. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3287/3 They all laid by a considerable time, and then making Sail stood to the Westward. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. *G Faire servir, to make sail, after having lain by for some time. 1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. I. iii. 50 The men..were making sail upon the yacht nimbly. 1974 F. Mowat Boat who wouldn't Float xi. 117 I then ran him through such standard procedures as making sail, lowering sail, handling the sheets, letting go the anchor, putting the fenders overside. < as lemmas |
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