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Meanings of hoisting the sails in английском

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hastear velas
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Nautical term.

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        Usage of hoisting the sails in английском
        1
        The seamen hoisting the sails, the little ship went gaily out into the Ægean Sea.
        The Book of Missionary Heroes
        2
        The rigging was of the simplest description, and before dark everything was in readiness for hoisting the sails.
        The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Cent...
        3
        A cheer greets this announcement and the men are soon hoisting the sails, which flap and swell above them.
        The story of cirrus flux
        4
        If the halliards of the new craft had not been new and strong, he would certainly have broken them in hoisting the sails.
        Little By Little; or, The Cruise of the Flyaway
        5
        While his cousin was hoisting the sails, James deliberately seated himself in the stern of the boat, and took hold of the tiller.
        Frank, the Young Naturalist
        6
        The boatmen were astir before daylight, hoisting the sails, for the wind had turned to the north, as it often does after a thunderstorm.
        The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
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