“staysail”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

staysail

释义

staysail Naut.|ˈsteɪseɪl, ˈsteɪs(ə)l|
[f. stay n.¹]
A triangular sail hoisted upon a stay. Often with defining word prefixed.
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. i. ii. 18 Hoise up Main Staysail, and Mizen Stay-sail.1748Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 163 Their top-gallant sails and stay-sails all fluttering in the wind.1806A. Duncan Life Nelson 124 The Foudroyant's..stay-sails..were all in tatters.1899F. T. Bullen Log Sea-waif 46 Some of the fore and afters had actually got staysails set, with the sheets hauled flat aft.
b. attrib.
1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 300 The staysail sheet is let go.1863A. Young Naut. Dict. 369 Staysail⁓netting, the netting above a vessel's bowsprit, for stowing away the fore-topmast staysail.1867Smyth Sailor's Wordbk., Staysail-Stay, the stay on which a staysail is set.

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