sailyard

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A yard (spar or shaft) to which the sails of a ship are bent (tied or fastened to).
  2. One of the structural arms of a windmill to which the vanes or sails are attached. obsolete
  3. An antenna of an insect. obsolete

词形变化

sailyards plural

词源

From Middle English saylyerde, sailyerd, seilȝerd, from Old English seġlġyrd, seġelġyrd (“sailyard”), from Proto-West Germanic *seglagaʀdī and *seglagaʀd (“sailyard, mast”, literally “sail-rod, sail-staff”), equivalent to sail + yard (“staff, rod, stick”). Cognate with German Segelgerte.
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