| 词汇 | skysail |
| 释义 | skysail noun[ C ] sailing specializeduk /ˈskaɪ.seɪl/ us /ˈskaɪ.seɪl/ a sail that is usually the top sail on a mast(= a tall pole) on a sailing boat: 天帆 A skysail is the uppermost sail in many old square-rigged ships, though sometimes topped by a moonraker.天帆是许多老式方帆船的最上层帆，不过有时上面还会有一面月帆。 Most ship owners considered skysails more ornamental than useful. The Portsmouth-built Noonday had only one skysail, on her mainmast. Few ships carried skysails in the 1920s. Parts of ships & boats abaft bilge water boathook boiler room bowline cleat escape hatch keel paddle periscope propeller prow rigging spar steerage stem strop sun deck superstructure topsail Examples of skysailskysail On deck the men were sheeting home the skysails. From Project Gutenberg Her upper spars were on the same scale, tapering away through topmast, topgallant-mast, royal and skysail-masts, until they fined away into slender wands. From Project Gutenberg But the skysails "stayed put" and indeed every bit of rag was doing noble duty. From Project Gutenberg A dozen hands were aloft furling the skysails and royals. From Project Gutenberg The part of the topgallantmast above the topgallant-rigging is called the royal-mast or royal-pole, and the continuation above the royal-rigging, if any, is the skysail-pole. From Project Gutenberg But we now let out our skysails and came down on her rapidly. From Project Gutenberg We had run into the southeast trade and were reaching along to the southward under skysails. From Project Gutenberg She was two thousand tons, clipper, and with skysails. From Project Gutenberg A sliding shutter overhead was thrown back, when on the wind, to allow the helmsman a sight of the weather cloth of the mizzen skysail. From Project Gutenberg Thus, the lowest sail is the course, the next is the topsail, the next the topgallantsail, the next the royal and the highest of all is the skysail. From Project Gutenberg A slight dew began to settle as the watch wore on and presently a sound aloft of the flapping of a skysail started us to attention. From Project Gutenberg They deemed the breaking of that slender, elevated, unbraced mast the natural result of the order which the commander gave to set the skysail, going as the vessel then was. From Project Gutenberg In all of the lore of cutting canvas for sails, and we made a set of skysails on the voyage, the mate was a past master. From Project Gutenberg For the next three days we went along merrily to the northward, the beginning of the southeast trade behind us, and our skysails drawing full overhead. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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