downhaul

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any rope used to haul down a sail or spar.
    — The only sail that is wholly ours is the spanker. They control absolutely--sheets, halyards, clewlines, buntlines, braces, and down-hauls--every sail on the fore and main. We control the braces on the mizzen, although they control the canvas on the mizzen.

词形变化

downhauls plural

词源

From down- + haul.
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