| 单词 | butter-rigged |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter-rigged butter-rigged adj. Nautical designating a topsail schooner whose topgallant yard is raised and lowered by halyards as required, rather than forming a fixed part of the vessel's rigging; cf. butterman n. [So called because this type of craft was commonly used by traders to carry butter from the Netherlands.] ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [adjective] > rigged > in specific ways lateen1540 high-riggeda1547 tall1548 well-rigged1577 under-sailed1599 over-rigged1627 schooner-rigged1769 sloop-rigged1769 ketch-rigged1775 spritsail1791 brig-rigged1796 square-rigged1802 ship-rigged1803 taunt-rigged1825 Bermudian-rigged1846 Bermudian1847 maphrodite1849 bark-rigged1858 butter-rigged1881 jackass rigged1883 1881 W. C. Russell Ocean Free-lance III. iv. 121 The little wooden cabin of a butter-rigged schooner. 1885 Daily Tel. 26 Nov. 8/4 A butter-rigged schooner's a vessel that sets her t'gall't sail flying. The yard comes down on the taw'sa'l yard, and the sails is furled together. 1948 B. Lubbock in C. E. Fayle et al. Trade Winds iv. 95 There are probably few people today who can say what was meant by a butter-rigged schooner. A butter-rigged schooner set her topgallant sail flying; the topgallant yard had no lifts, and when the sail had to be taken in the yard was lowered down on to the topsail yard, and the sail furled in with the topsail. < as lemmas |
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