| 单词 | to pay round |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pay round † to pay round Nautical. Obsolete. intransitive. Of a ship or a ship's course: to turn to leeward; = to pay off at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > fall off to leeward to fall offc1625 to pay away1625 pay1667 to pay off1801 to pay round1825 1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 51 By slow degrees her head to Port Pays round. 1834 W. S. W. Ruschenberger Three Years in Pacific 12 Aided by the jib, her head ‘paid round’, and looked down the stream. 1845 Times 22 Jan. 7/1 Our head paid round to southward, the frigate's to the N.E. 1918 A. T. Mahan Influence Sea Power on Hist. xiii. 490 The gap through which Rodney's group penetrated was widened by the ‘Diadème’ on its north side being taken aback and paying round on the other tack. < as lemmas |
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