| 单词 | jibboom |
| 例句 | When the last grappling was severed, the Gannet swung slowly round, her flying jibboom still entangled in the pirate's bowsprit shrouds. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z The masts fell in-board, and hung suspended by the rigging, but the jibbooms remained under the bows, fastened to the ship by their stays, which were of wire. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z For a whole day they pointed their jibbooms alternately at Africa and South America, to the North Pole and the South. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z However, in ordinary weather he managed to run along the deck pretty easily, his jibboom, as the sailors called his neck, held straight out in front of him, and helping himself along with his wings. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Look at her bilge, her lines, her bows, her jibboom, with its smart and business-like curve. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z After the gale came a fog, so thick and continuous that for two days we could scarce see the end of our jibboom. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z In the course of the morning, the masts, which up to that time had been swinging about aloft, were secured, and the wreck of the jibboom cleared away. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z There were some few days of fog or mist, so dense that it was impossible even to see the point of the jibboom. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z The vessel, as I have already said, had been dashed stern on to the rocks and into the gully, and the jibboom hung over a black, slippery precipice that descended sheer down into the sea. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Quick," called the Captain, "the Nargalnannacus is on the lee scuppers just off the jibboom brace. The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza 2011-08-19T02:00:16.653Z Suddenly, with a swirl of beaten water, a huge vessel loomed out of the mist, her flying jibboom seeming to project right over our stern. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z After this calamity the speed of the tug was reduced until the jibboom was rigged and the anchors secured. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Surely it was not his fault if the second day out, during the height of the storm, the jibboom had carried away, and two of the starboard watch went with it and were lost. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z When I awoke, perhaps it would be four bells or even six, and there would be James, with his specs athwart his great jibboom of a nose, poring earnestly over his mother’s Bible. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Then: Crack! from aloft, and crack! went the jibboom, and the flying jib was off and away to leeward like a bat. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z Her standing jibboom is gone clean by the cap. Toilers of the Sea We were rapidly nearing the bar, upon which the rising wind was making a heavy sea get up, and our jibboom had to be rigged out. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z It swung out forward like a great jibboom. The Black Buccaneer Suddenly assuming a perpendicular position, caused by the falling aft of the battery and stores, straight as a plumb-line, stern first, she went down, the jibboom being the last to appear above water. The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama It was an acrobatic feat to jump from the slippery ice, lay hold of a jibboom towering overhead, and scramble over the bows. From Paris to New York by Land I saw once a cabin-boy hanging on to the jibboom of an English brig, the True Blue, knocked, jibboom and all, to ten thousand nothings. Toilers of the Sea "What did the Buccaneer say when you nailed his nose to the flying jibboom?" A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions The jibboom of the Britisher had swung over the deck of the Richard and Jones with his own hands made it fast to the mizzenmast of his ship. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Her fore and main royal masts and topgallant masts and jibboom had apparently all been carried away together, and she was almost lying on her beam ends. "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 I have had her now for nearly thirteen years, and have made my little fortune by her, and I could kiss her, from the end of her jibboom to the upper rudder gudgeon. The Call Of The South 1908 Before he had time to issue any orders the main topgallant mast was carried away, dragging the fore-topmast, and with it the jibboom. The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. After half an hour of incessant broadsides, the two vessels had approached each other so close, that the jibboom of the Frenchman was pointed between the fore and main rigging of the Portsmouth. The Settlers in Canada The lighter canvas was instantly handed—young Sam and one of the men who had gone in the boat were ordered out on the jibboom to furl the flying-jib. Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars The consequence was that a furious squall took her aback, and had not the jibboom—and then the upper spars—carried away under the terrific strain, she would have gone to the bottom. "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 The stern very low in the water, the bows pretty well out of it, so that we could see the red-painted bottom, or coloured iron by rust; the jibboom gone. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Bill ordered one of the men to get out to the jibboom end with a piece of pork, and heave it as far ahead as he could fling. The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. So long as daylight remained no canvas was taken in, though both of them were sometimes plunging their jibbooms under, and their bows almost level with the foremast. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century The jibboom had been run out, and the stays set up. The Frozen Pirate Soon they drew near the wreck, and could see that she had sunk completely, and that the crew were clinging to the jibboom. The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands It was a question which would first go, our mainmast or the Frenchman’s jibboom. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor “When she went about going up Channel once, her spanker pretty nigh swept away one of the towers of Calais, while her jibboom run right into Dover Castle.” The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. One of them came prancing along, tossed up the stern so that part of the jibboom was put under and her attitude became uncommonly like running head first under the sea. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Her topmasts were standing, but her jibboom was rigged in. The Frozen Pirate With right good will they plied their axes on the enemy’s jibboom. True Blue Encouraged by this, we exerted ourselves still more than ever, and at length a man from the jibboom end of the Cerberus hove a lead which happily reached our boat. Hurricane Hurry “On course, sir,” said Paul, “what is our duty must be done, though it would be a hard matter to see the ‘David Dunn’ of Dover, even if our jibboom were over her taffrail.” The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. At ten p.m. the wind and sea had increased, and the vessel was plunging her jibboom and bowsprit under. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century The flying jib having been carelessly secured, the gaskets, or small ropes which bound it to the jibboom, gave way. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures Pat, who was farthest out, caught hold of the bobstay and was hoisting himself on board by the jibboom, when a cry of dismay escaped him. The Three Admirals A loud crash was heard, and the fore-topmast went over the side, carrying away the jibboom. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea The lighter canvas was instantly handed—young Sam and one of the men who had gone in the boat were ordered out on the jibboom to furl the flying jib. Happy Jack and other Tales of the Sea Don’t you remember that one we were looking at a few months ago, that came in here after the storm, to get a new jibboom?” The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise There were three women on board, one of whom was saved by following her husband down a rope from the jibboom. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures Answering to the topmasts on the three masts is the jibboom on the bowsprit, and in continuation of that the flying-jibboom. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Davy ran out to the end of the jibboom with a lead line. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned A terrific storm was experienced off the west coast of Ireland, in which the foretopgallant mast and jibboom were carried away. Young Lion of the Woods A Story of Early Colonial Days The tow-rope, tautening under the last stroke of our oars, had drawn the boat back in its recoil, and she now drifted close under the Gauntlet's jibboom, which ran out upon a very short bowsprit. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 So she might have done with the greatest ease, but having fired our broadside just as her flying jibboom was touching our mainyard, we bore up, and her bow struck our larboard quarter. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures The lines of her bulwarks, her sheer, fell to her waist, then airily rose again, came up and round to merge in one fine line at the jibboom. London River Davy threw the lead towards them from the end of the jibboom, but they were too far away for the line to reach them. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned The jibboom fell right across the forefoot of the yacht, and now looks as if it had been cut at for weeks with some blunt tool. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months He next sailed from Philadelphia on the 13th of October, and on the 18th of the same month encountered a heavy gale, during which the Wasp lost her jibboom and two seamen. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 Carried away the flying jibboom at 7.30 A.M.—saved the sail. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter The jibboom was plunged right into the water, and, as I stared, the bows disappeared into the sea. The Ghost Pirates The shrouds supporting the foremast had been ripped out by the berg on the port or left hand side of the vessel, and her jibboom had been snapped off short where the berg struck her. The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic All their noses upwardly projected from their faces like so many jibbooms. Moby Dick: or, the White Whale But on the second day of our enforced detention a ship poked her jibboom round the west end of the little bay. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Ultimately they brought us up with the jibboom of a Dutch brig poking through our spanker—nothing worse. The Mirror of the Sea The fisherman then takes his seat upon the jibboom end, having first, if he is prudent, secured a sack to the jibstay in such a manner that its mouth gapes wide. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales |
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