earing 的定义
Nautical.
- a rope attached to a cringle and used for bending a corner of a sail to a yard, boom, or gaff or for reefing a sail.
更多earing例句
- The post of honour among seamen in reefing sails is the weather earing.
- The serang himself lay out on the weather yard-arm, and I saw him, earing in hand, working away actively with the rest.
- Whatever I may find necessary to order, Mr Earing, this ship's company will find it necessary to execute.
- Earing faced his Commander in silence, perfectly conscious that nothing he could utter contained an argument like this.
- It would have exceeded the peaceful and submissive temperament of the honest Earing, to have delayed any longer.