| 单词 | sternpost |
| 例句 | Many Eurasian societies developed large sailing ships, some of them capable of sailing against the wind and crossing the ocean, equipped with sextants, magnetic compasses, sternpost rudders, and cannons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The sternpost rudder, created in China in the thirteenth century, also allowed for steering against the currents. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The effect of the whole was a leak in the extreme run, oozing, as far as could be ascertained, from somewhere about the sternpost. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Transom, tran′sum, n. a thwart beam or lintel, esp. the horizontal mullion or crossbar of a window: in ships, the beam across the sternpost to strengthen the afterpart.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z When completed, it is firmly lashed from stem to sternpost, and from side to side, with a lariat, or green hide rope, forty feet long, to keep it from spreading or racking. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z The place was an after-hold, its for'ard end terminating in a strong transverse bulkhead, while the curved timbers and raking sternpost comprised the remaining walls. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Slowly the cutter was backed in till its sternpost stuck on the smooth, even bottom. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z A few yards away from the sternpost was the jolly-boat with the crew. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z A third buried itself in the sternpost, but fortunately did not explode. The Greater Republic A History of the United States Through all the green and blue and golden Acadian summer he had toiled joyously at bending the thin planks and riveting them soundly to the ribs, the stem and the sternpost. International Short Stories American But how? that heavy sternpost of his was never made for climbing; yet see! he rears himself up against the tree; is he about to essay the scaling? The Romance of Natural History, Second Series The boat was sharp at each end, and the lines from amidships to stem, and from amidships to sternpost, were alike. Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5. The ship’s in splendid condition; there’s next to nothing wrong with her but the garboard streak and the sternpost. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) Only a vestige of the sternpost of Skylark now remained, half buried in the sand. A Sailor of King George One shell lodged in her sternpost, but failed to explode. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 It was found that the customhouse rule then in effect measured length between perpendiculars above the upper deck, from "foreside of the main stem" to the "after side of the sternpost." The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Here he crammed oakum, brimstone and other combustibles between the rudder and the sternpost, and set the whole on fire. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 In another house was the sternpost of a vessel, probably part of a wreck driven across from the coast of Africa. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold Here I made a start by laying out, full-size, in chalk, upon the after-deck, an accurate outline of the keel, stem, and sternpost, which greatly facilitated my work. The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn The sternpost caught fire and sent up a prodigious black smoke, which warned the pirates that their ship was ablaze. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. A third lodged in the sternpost, but failed to explode. Dewey and Other Naval Commanders Accordingly, it had one hundred feet in the beam, one hundred feet in the keel, and one hundred feet from the bottom of the sternpost to the tafferel. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 The rain came in torrents, whitening the sea; but Gerda stood with her arm round the high sternpost, with her yellow hair flying and the water streaming from her, seeming to enjoy the turmoil. A Sea Queen's Sailing The galleon “Santiago” has the same measurements of keel, floor, over all, depth of hold, extreme breadth, and sternpost transom, and the same space between decks. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Later, as we retraced our steps, were the stem and sternpost gone: you saw two strong wooden walls, between which the road took its course. O. T. a Danish Romance The sternpost recovered from the wreckage is, I am informed, included among the Laperouse relics preserved at Paris. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Henry George was a sailor; every part of a sailing ship was to him familiar—from bilge- water to pennant, from bowsprit to sternpost. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers And as he went, one of that ghostly crew went also, and stood as he stood, with outstretched arm set on the dim sternpost. A Sea Queen's Sailing The Endurance groaned and quivered as her starboard quarter was forced against the floe, twisting the sternpost and starting the heads and ends of planking. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition The ship's in splendid condition; there's next to nothing wrong with her but the garboard streak and the sternpost. The Wrecker But though Gerda's face was pale, and her eyes wide with the terror of the wreck, she never screamed or let go her hold of the sternpost to which she had been clinging. A Sea Queen's Sailing |
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