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单词 to sail on another board
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to sail on another board
15. Nautical. Sideward direction (in reference to the ship's course); the course of a ship when tacking. to make boards: to tack. to make short boards: to tack frequently. Also in some figurative phrases, as †to sail on another board: to take another course of conduct. Cf. tack n.1[Of French origin: cf. French virer de bord to turn the ship's side in another direction; courir des bords to tack. Cf. starboard n., adj., and adv. and larboard n. and adj. used as directions in reference to a ship's course.]
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > tack or make tacks
to make boards1533
tack1557
traverse1568
ply1589
board1627
tackle1632
busk1635
trip1687
to beat abouta1774
to come about1777
to make short boards1777
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [noun] > beating against the wind > tacking > a tack or beat > track of
board1533
traverse?1574
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) i. 73 Seing her husband wes dede, scho began to sail on ane uthir burde.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 17 Thai salit..Ay be ane burd fyve dais and fyve nycht.
1596 F. Vere Comm. 30 Making still toward them upon one board.
1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. III. 456 To this and that side I make tacks and bords.
1777 W. Anderson Jrnl. 30 May in J. Cook Jrnls. (1967) III. ii. 882 Before day light we made short boards.
1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow III. vii. 104 Standing in..to make a long board upon next tack.
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) ii. viii. i. §5 The vessel will do it in two boards if there be room in the channel.
1884 Harper's Mag. Jan. 229/1 The tendency was to give her a stern board [i.e. to sail her stern first].
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to sail on another board
c. In figurative context. Chiefly in proverbial phrases: †to sail all in one ship, to ‘row in the same boat’, to belong to one party or class; †to sail on another board (see board n. 15); to sail near (or close to) the wind, to come very near to transgression of a law or a received moral principle.
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1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B4 You be all of one Church, saile all in one ship.
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 123 They will alwaies saile by the Carde and Compasse of their own mind.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IX xxvi. 18 My words, at least, are more sincere and hearty Than if I sought to sail before the wind.
1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons iv A certain kind of young English gentleman, who has sailed too close to the wind at home, and who comes to the colony to be whitewashed.
1883 W. E. Norris Thirlby Hall viii With regard to Turf transactions again, he may sail very near the wind indeed, and be pardoned.
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