bowsprit 的定义
Nautical.
- a spar projecting from the upper end of the bow of a sailing vessel, for holding the tacks of various jibs or stays and often supporting a jib boom.
bowsprit 近义词
等同于 bow
等同于 prow
更多bowsprit例句
- The bowsprit of the Guerriere caught fast in the rigging of the Constitution, and the sailors on both ships tried to board.
- Her bowsprit and masts were nearly all cut away, and out of more than a hundred men only fourteen were unhurt.
- They'd got a kind of fore-shortening out of the bowsprit, and another set of canvas partly up that was dirty and patched.
- A few wretches alone clung desperately to the forepart of the ship and the stump of the bowsprit.
- The studding-sails were rigged out, and various strange-shaped sails were set between the masts and above and below the bowsprit.