| 单词 | under sail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder sail e. under sail: having the sails set. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > with sails set [phrase] under sailc893 canvas1873 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. i. §21 Þæt þæt scip wæs ealne weg yrnende under segle. 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 215 Quhen that the schip was saynit and vndir saile [etc.]. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 540 The Ship is vnder sayle, and heere she coms amaine. View more context for this quotation 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 454 Suppose..you see a Ship..under Sail, making towards the Land. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 162 In the afternoon [we] got under sail. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vii. 207 We got under sail from the road of Paita..about midnight. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xiii. 218 About ten miles distant, followed by the Harpy, under all sail. 1857 C. Gribble in Mercantile Marine Mag. (1858) 5 1 Weighed anchor.., under all sail. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Under sail, the state of a ship when she is in motion from the action of wind on her sails. < as lemmas |
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