单词 fore-and-aft rig 释义 BETA

Examples offore-and-aft rig

Dictionary> Examples offore-and-aft rigfore-and-aft rigisn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help!Add a definitionI am not aware of any statements, official or otherwise, which would warrant the assumption that thefore-and-aftrigwas to be granted to all petty officers irrespective of seniority.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0The ship was fitted with afore-and-aftrigon her two masts, which had been designed to allow progress in the event of engine failure.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some had a single mast, with afore-and-aftrig, while some had an additional mizzen mast.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Traditional fore-and-aft rigs used a four-sided gaff rigged mainsail, sometimes setting a gaff topsail above it.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In that time she was re-rigged as a four-masted barquentine with a square-rigged foremast and three fore-and-aft rigged other masts.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The foremast was square rigged while the other three or four masts were fore-and-aft rigged, barquentine fashion but carrying very simplified standing and running rigging.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For example, in the 17th century, brigantine referred to a two-masted sailing ship that was square-rigged on the foremast, and fore-and-aft rigged on the main mast.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Such sails are described as fore-and-aft rigged.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The mizzen mast is fore-and-aft rigged.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.

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