Jamie Green Naut.
(ˈdʒeɪmɪ griːn)
[Proper name, orig. unknown.]
The name of a type of sail found on tea-clippers. Cf. Jimmy Green (Jimmy2 8).
| 1866 Capt. Keay Jrnl. 20 June in B. Lubbock China Clippers (1914) App. H. p. xxi, About 5.30 a.m., all stay-sails and fore-topmast and topgallant stunsails set and Jamie Green. 1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 109/2 Jamie Green, a sail set beneath the bowsprit and jib-boom of a tea clipper. The halyard hauled the sail to the end of the jib-boom and the tack to the lower end of the martingale boom. 1934 P. Mitchell Deep Water i. xxiii. 184 They..had..Jamie Greens for under the jib boom, ringtails, watersails, and an extra flying jib. 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 123 Jamie Green, a sail set under the jib-boom, to the dolphin striker. |