foreyard

/fawr-yahrd, fohr-/US // ˈfɔrˌyɑrd, ˈfoʊr- //UK // (ˈfɔːˌjɑːd) //

前院,前花园,前庭院,前庭

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
- : a yard on the lowest spar of the foremast of a topsail schooner used to hold out the clews of the topsail or lower topsails.
- : a yard forming the main lower mast of a ketch or yawl used to support a square course.

Hands were sent aloft to fish the foreyard, and to knot and splice the most important parts of the running rigging.
The foreyard had been sprung, or True Blue would have brought the vessel to under her fore-topsail.
In the morning we felt nervous and miserable; on the whole we weren't very gay till the sun was over the foreyard.
One of the sailors went on to the foreyard to ascertain more distinctly what was going on.
These vessels bore at their bowsprit, and at their cross-jack, as well as at the main and foreyard, groups of corpses.