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Bight /?ba?t/
| Глоссарий морских терминов (рангоут, такелаж, устройство судна) |
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.
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Bight, английский
- The part of the rope or line, between the end and the standing part, on which a knot is formed. bilge
- A loop in a line.
- A substantive made from the preterperfect tense of bend. the space lying between two promontories or headlands, being wider and smaller than a gulf, but larger than a bay. it is also used generally for any coast-bend or indentation, and is mostly held as a synonym of shallow bay.
- The loop of a rope when it is folded, in contradistinction to the end; as, her anchor hooked the bight of our cable, i.e. caught any part of it between the ends. the bight of his cable has swept our anchor, i.e. the bight of the cable of another ship as she ranged about has entangled itself about the flukes of our anchor. any part of the chord or curvature of a rope between the ends may be called a bight.
- [1] any part of a line between its two ends. [2] a bend or loop in a line. [3] a bend or curve in the shoreline. [4] the body of water enclosed by such a bend. [5] a bay or gulf.
- Traditionally a loop in a rope. with closed veins, such as with an english bridle, bight refers to the ends of the reins. even though western reins are often split, their ends are also referred to as the bight.
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Frigate, английский
- 1. in the 17th century, any warship built for speed and maneuverability.
- In the royal navy, the next class vessel to a ship of the line; formerly a light nimble ship built for the purpose of sailing swiftly. the name was early known in the mediterranean, and applied to a long kind of vessel, navigated in that sea, with sails and oars. the english were the first who appeared on the ocean with these ships, and equipped them for war as well as for commerce. these vessels mounted from 28 to 60 guns, and made excellent cruisers. frigate is now apocryphal, being carried up to 7000 tons. the donkey-frigate was a late invention to serve patronage, and sprigs of certain houses were educated in them. they carried 28 guns, carronades, and were about 600 tons burden, commanded by captains who sometimes found a commander in a sloop which could blow him out of water.—frigate is also the familiar name of the membranous zoophyte, physalia pelagica, or portuguese man-of-war.
- [1] a small and speedy 17th century warship. [2] an 18th–19th century triple-masted, squarerigged, sixth to fourth-rate naval vessel, smaller and faster than a ship-of-the-line, carrying 20 to 60 guns usually on a single gun-deck but occasionally doublebanked. [3] a british world war ii escort vessel. [4] after world war ii the usn developed ships mid- fratricide 128 way in size between cruisers and destroyers. technically light cruisers, these vessels were briefly called frigates. [5] during the 1970s, usn nomenclature was revised to include a distinct class of frigates, smaller than destroyers, reflecting the practice of other navies.
Galleass, английский
- 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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