snug downとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

snug down (third-person singular simple present snugs down, present participle snugging down, simple past and past participle snugged down)

1. (transitive) To secure a ship or equipment on a ship, such as in preparation for a storm.

   Quickly snug everything down before the storm gets here.

   • 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI:

     "What is the use of running off-shore?" I said to Margaret, when the kites were snugged down and all yards trimmed on the wind. "Three hundred and fifty miles off the land is as good as thirty-five hundred so far as starvation is concerned."