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Galleass
| Глоссарий морских терминов (рангоут, такелаж, устройство судна) |
- 1. an oared warship of the 1500s equipped with a gundeck, larger and equipped with more sails than a galley.
- A large vessel, driven by lateen sails on three masts and thirty to forty oars. equipped with a pointed ram at the bow and cannon on raised fighting platforms at bow and stern. an unsatisfactory compromise between rowing galley and sailing galleon.
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Unsatisfactory, английский
Compromise, английский
The mutual agreement of a party or parties at difference, to refer to arbitration, or make an end of the matter.
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Bight /?ba?t/, английский
1. bight, a loop in rope or line—a hitch or knot tied on the bight is one tied in the middle of a rope, without access to the ends.
Scull, английский
- 1. an oar used for sculling.
- To propel a boat with a single oar fixed in a notch through the transom.
- A short oar of such length that a pair of them, one on each side, are conveniently managed by a single rower sitting in the middle of the boat. also, a light metal-helmet worn in our early fleet.—to scull. to row a boat with a pair of sculls. also, to propel a boat by a particular method of managing a single oar over the boat`s stern, and reversing the blade each time. it is in fact the half-stroke of the screw rapidly reversed, and closely resembles the propelling power of the horizontal tail of the whale.
- [1] an oar light enough to be pulled with one hand, and long enough for two to be managed by an oarsman seated at the center of the boat. [2] to propel a boat by the twisting motion of an oar placed over the stern of a boat. [3] to row.
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