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名詞

taffrail (plural taffrails)

1. (nautical) The curved wooden top of the stern of a sailing man-of-war or East Indiaman, usually carved or decorated.
2. (nautical) The rail around the stern of a ship.
   • 1833, Edgar Allan Poe, MS. Found in a Bottle‎:

     One evening, leaning over the taffrail, I observed a very singular, isolated cloud, to the N.W.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 29, in Moby-Dick‎:

     […] with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast […]

   • See also citations under tafferel.
3. (nautical) The deck area at the stern of a vessel.

別の表記

• tafferel

派生語

• taffrail log

派生した語

• → Dhivehi: ތަފުރީލު (tafurīlu)