"big" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Where the devil was that frigate now, he thought bitterly as he watched first the big mainsail and then the foresail swing over on thechasse-marée.
- The mizzen went first; then the big mainsail vanished around the self-furling boom, and Amanda slowed.
- The big mainsail occasionally lost the wind and filled again with a bang which shook the ship.
- The big mainsail provides most of the drive, and the small headsail is easier for a short-handed crew to manage.
- So the chest went aboard, and in the middle of the afternoon we hoisted the Reindeer's big mainsail and cast off.
- A fair breeze from the east bellied the big single mainsail, hurrying the ship across the shoreline toward the white-flecked main.
- The client expected a bigger mainsail and new deck moulding and an effective keel to give greater stability.
- It happened that we had already put two reefs in the big mainsail.
- The big white mainsail filled with wind, snapping the lines tight.
- The first arrow blurred high over the heads of the searats like a red comet, arcing into the big mainsail of Greenfang.
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