英和和英

名詞

clewline (plural clewlines)

1. (sailing) Outermost of the ropes with which a square sail is rolled up to the yard
   • 1863, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Captain Brown, Dana's Seaman's friend, page 24:

     If the halyards are not single, the yard must be sent down by a yard rope, like the topgallant yard. In some vessels, instead of making the sheets and clewlines fast to the jack, over-hand knots are taken in their ends, and they are let go.

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

     The only sail that is wholly ours is the spanker. They control absolutely--sheets, halyards, clewlines, buntlines, braces, and down-hauls--every sail on the fore and main. We control the braces on the mizzen, although they control the canvas on the mizzen.

Holonyms

• cordage

等位語

• buntline