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词汇 topsail
释义 topsail
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈtɒp.seɪl/ us /ˈtɑːp.seɪl/
a sail that is above another sail on a sailing boat: (三节桅的)中桅帆;(二节桅的)上桅帆
He clambered up the rigging to unfurl the topsails.他爬上索具,展开上桅帆。
Winds blasted the ship, her topsails rapidly filling with wet, heavy snow.狂风向船扑来,上桅帆瞬间兜满了厚厚的湿雪。
Both our topsails gave way by the force of the gale.
They climbed the mast to free the topsails.
Topsails would be a nuisance and a danger for a crew of two.
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Parts of ships & boats
abaft
bilge water
boathook
boiler room
bowline
cleat
escape hatch
keel
paddle
periscope
propeller
prow
rigging
spar
sprit
steerage
stem
strop
sun deck
superstructure

Examples of topsail


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She was topsail schooner-rigged for auxiliary sail power.
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They were all pole masted cutters with gaff topsail.
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In early 1976, she was rebuilt and rerigged as a three-masted topsail schooner, her original rig.
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She was a three-masted topsail-yard schooner, iron framed and with teak skin.
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Traditional fore-and-aft rigs used a four-sided gaff rigged mainsail, sometimes setting a gaff topsail above it.
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The mainmast was lateen-rigged with a trapezoidal mainsail, but the foremast carried the conventional square course and square topsail.
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Oddly, the sprit rigged mainsail was often accompanied by a jib and a topsail.
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He later pioneered the use of a jib topsail to shorten his time-to-market, so as to meet the growing appetite for fresh-caught fish.
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The rigging consisted of a single mast with a square mainsail and a topsail.
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In light wind, a 450sqft m2 topsail may also be raised.
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To conserve fuel (coal) she was also originally rigged as a topsail schooner.
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The lowest square sail was the course, the next sail up the mast was called the topsail, the next the topgallant sail.
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She was rigged as a barkentine with double topsail yards; standing rigging was galvanized charcoal-iron wire.
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A jack-yard topsail may also have the aforementioned vertical yard, although this makes for a very large topsail.
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A fore-and-aft topsail may be carried above the upper or only spanker, and is called the "gaff sail".
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