| 单词 | gaff topsail |
| 例句 | A belt of smoky red spread swiftly along the horizon, he heard the high gaff topsail flap, booms rattled and then the yacht got quiet. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z "Has this sail been kept on the yacht all night?" said I, looking up at the wide spread of mainsail and gaff topsail. A Marriage at Sea The sharp crack of a shot from the six-pounder was the reply, and simultaneously, holes appeared in the gaff topsail and the main topgallant staysail. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers Used aboard yachts for bending on the gaff topsail halliards. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 The big gaff topsail was next hauled down and carefully stowed away, and finally the mainsail was lowered, stowed, and the coat put over it. Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure "Maybe," said the mate, "she will soon have too much breeze; that gaff topsail is foolish in a boat with no deck and no sailor on board." Stories of Authors, British and American Papa, on this, ordered the gaff topsail to be taken in, and the jib shifted. A Yacht Voyage Round England The mainsail was cast loose, jib and staysail ready, and the gaff topsail would not take many minutes to run up in its place. In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" She was rigged with a mainsail, a mizen, and a foresail, to which they added a sliding bowsprit, so that a jib could be set in light winds, with a flying gaff topsail. The Three Admirals It was a fine, clear, frosty morning, and the Badger quickly sent up his gaff topsail and began to overhaul the other, so that by nine o'clock the two vessels were only a mile apart. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 "Maybe," continued the mate, "she will soon have too much breeze; that gaff topsail is foolish in a boat with no deck and no sailor on board." Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition The jib, mainsail, and gaff topsail are hauled up to their very tautest; finally, the cable is slipped, and then old Sandy for the first time looks around. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Then the creature spread her wings like a bird—mainsail and gaff topsail, staysail and jib—leaped away to leeward, and seemed actually to bound over the waves. Malcolm The cutter at the time was reefed, but when she saw the lugger's topsail going up she shook out her reefs and set her gaff topsail. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 |
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