英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /lʌf/
  • 韻: -ʌf

名詞

luff (複数形 luffs)

1. (nautical) The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.

   By easing the halyard, the luff of the sail was made to sag to leeward.

2. (nautical) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
3. (nautical) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
4. (nautical) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.

動詞

luff (三人称単数 現在形 luffs, 現在分詞 luffing, 過去形および過去分詞形 luffed)

1. (nautical, of a sail, intransitive) To shake due to being trimmed improperly.
   • 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:

     I thought how my life is like a little boat and I must hold the tiller steady against the buffeting of wind and waves, and how sometimes, like this morning, I lose my hold somehow and the sail luffs helplessly and the little vessel wallows, turning this way and that in the swell.

2. (nautical, of a boat, intransitive) To alter course to windward so that the sails luff. (Alternatively luff up)
3. (nautical, transitive) to let out (a sail) so that it luffs.
4. (mechanical) To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.
   • 1999, Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro, Cranes and Derricks‎^[1], →ISBN, page 95:

     The tower is mounted on a slewing platform, which also carries the power plant and the counterweights, while the jib is supported and luffed by fixed pendant ropes.

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