a-try, advb. phr. Naut.
(əˈtraɪ)
[? a prep.1 + try.]
Of a ship in a gale: Kept by a judicious balance of canvas with her bows to the sea.
| 1611 Cotgr., Cappéer, A ship to lye a-try. 1628 Digby Voy. Medit. (1868) 86 We tooke in our fore course and lay a trie with our maine course. a 1733 North Lives (1826) II. 316 Sometimes a-try and sometimes a-hull we busked it out. 1867 in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. |