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Definition of Press of canvas
1. Noun. The greatest amount of sail that a ship can carry safely.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Press Of Canvas
Literary usage of Press of canvas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal: Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar by Sherard Osborn (1852)
"... and the exhilarating effect of a fine broad expanse of water leading to the
westward, up which we were thrashing under a press of canvas, ..."
2. The Law of General Average: (English and Foreign) by Richard Lowndes (1888)
"The carrying a press of canvas or any extraordinary setting of sail, when done
to avoid a danger, as for instance to escape a coast or rock, and done after ..."
3. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"... under press of canvas. The main-sail is triangular, and boats in racing-trim
set masts twice the length of the deck, and carry bowsprits little short of ..."
4. General Average by John H. Gourlie (1879)
"The damage occasioned to the vessel, her spars and rigging, by carrying a press
of canvas to avoid an impending peril, snch as an enemy or a ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and Average: With References to by Joseph Arnould (1850)
"... sails, or rigging, by carrying a press of canvas to escape an enemy or lee
shore, would, -no doubt, be recoverable, as a loss by perils of the seas. ..."
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