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Xerxes (search for this): chapter 24
Xenophon (search for this): chapter 24
Varro (search for this): chapter 24
Manchester (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 24
Tuscany (Italy) (search for this): chapter 24
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 24
Y.
Yacht.
A decked pleasure-vessel.
There are about 1,300 yachts in Great Britain, averaging 30 tons.
The rigs are various, and many American and European yachts now have steampower as an accessory, or for use during calms.
The name yacht first occurs in English naval records, 1660.
The thalamegus of the ancients.
Yan′kee gang.
An arrangement in a sawmill (Canada) adapted for logs of 21 inches diameter and under.
It consists of two sets of gang-saws, having parallel ways in the immediate vicinity of each other.
One is the slabbing-gang, and reduces the log to a balk and slab-boards.
The balk is then shifted to the stock-gang, which rips it into lumber.
See slabbing-gang; stock-gang.
Yard.
1. (Nautical.) A spar slung from a mast and serving to extend a sail.
Square sails on yards are shown in the paintings of Eleythya, and elsewhere in Egypt.
Yards are either square, lateen, or lug-sail.
Yards for square sails are suspended across the mast
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 24
Y.
Yacht.
A decked pleasure-vessel.
There are about 1,300 yachts in Great Britain, averaging 30 tons.
The rigs are various, and many American and European yachts now have steampower as an accessory, or for use during calms.
The name yacht first occurs in English naval records, 1660.
The thalamegus of the ancients.
Yan′kee gang.
An arrangement in a sawmill (Canada) adapted for logs of 21 inches diameter and under.
It consists of two sets of gang-saws, having parallel ways in the immediate vicinity of each other.
One is the slabbing-gang, and reduces the log to a balk and slab-boards.
The balk is then shifted to the stock-gang, which rips it into lumber.
See slabbing-gang; stock-gang.
Yard.
1. (Nautical.) A spar slung from a mast and serving to extend a sail.
Square sails on yards are shown in the paintings of Eleythya, and elsewhere in Egypt.
Yards are either square, lateen, or lug-sail.
Yards for square sails are suspended across the mas
Russia (Russia) (search for this): chapter 24
Africa (search for this): chapter 24
India (India) (search for this): chapter 24