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What do “high sea” and “carry” mean in this sentence?
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This is a line from Google's definition of "poop":
(of a wave) break over the stern of (a ship), sometimes causing it to capsize.
"carrying a high sea, we were badly pooped"
This line doesn't make sense to me. What do "high" sea and "carry" mean here? "High sea" doesn't seem to refer to the high seas. The verbal usage of "poop" here comes from the noun "poop" (in nautical terms refers to the raised area at the rear of a ship).
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This is a line from Google's definition of "poop":
(of a wave) break over the stern of (a ship), sometimes causing it to capsize.
"carrying a high sea, we were badly pooped"
This line doesn't make sense to me. What do "high" sea and "carry" mean here? "High sea" doesn't seem to refer to the high seas. The verbal usage of "poop" here comes from the noun "poop" (in nautical terms refers to the raised area at the rear of a ship).
meaning phrase-meaning technical
asked 3 hours ago
Eddie KalEddie Kal
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There are a lot of meanings of “poop”. This one seems to be a nautical term. Is this the meaning you were looking for? As someone who is not familiar with nautical terminology I am not sure what “carrying a high sea” means in this context, either.
– Mixolydian
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@Mixolydian Good call pointing that out. I am adding the definition to the question.
– Eddie Kal
3 hours ago
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This is a line from Google's definition of "poop":
(of a wave) break over the stern of (a ship), sometimes causing it to capsize.
"carrying a high sea, we were badly pooped"
This line doesn't make sense to me. What do "high" sea and "carry" mean here? "High sea" doesn't seem to refer to the high seas. The verbal usage of "poop" here comes from the noun "poop" (in nautical terms refers to the raised area at the rear of a ship).
meaning phrase-meaning technical
asked 3 hours ago
Eddie KalEddie Kal
8,01762864
This is a line from Google's definition of "poop":
(of a wave) break over the stern of (a ship), sometimes causing it to capsize.
"carrying a high sea, we were badly pooped"
This line doesn't make sense to me. What do "high" sea and "carry" mean here? "High sea" doesn't seem to refer to the high seas. The verbal usage of "poop" here comes from the noun "poop" (in nautical terms refers to the raised area at the rear of a ship).
meaning phrase-meaning technical
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There are a lot of meanings of “poop”. This one seems to be a nautical term. Is this the meaning you were looking for? As someone who is not familiar with nautical terminology I am not sure what “carrying a high sea” means in this context, either.
– Mixolydian
3 hours ago
@Mixolydian Good call pointing that out. I am adding the definition to the question.
– Eddie Kal
3 hours ago
add a comment |
There are a lot of meanings of “poop”. This one seems to be a nautical term. Is this the meaning you were looking for? As someone who is not familiar with nautical terminology I am not sure what “carrying a high sea” means in this context, either.
– Mixolydian
3 hours ago
@Mixolydian Good call pointing that out. I am adding the definition to the question.
– Eddie Kal
3 hours ago
There are a lot of meanings of “poop”. This one seems to be a nautical term. Is this the meaning you were looking for? As someone who is not familiar with nautical terminology I am not sure what “carrying a high sea” means in this context, either.
– Mixolydian
3 hours ago
There are a lot of meanings of “poop”. This one seems to be a nautical term. Is this the meaning you were looking for? As someone who is not familiar with nautical terminology I am not sure what “carrying a high sea” means in this context, either.
– Mixolydian
3 hours ago
@Mixolydian Good call pointing that out. I am adding the definition to the question.
– Eddie Kal
3 hours ago
@Mixolydian Good call pointing that out. I am adding the definition to the question.
– Eddie Kal
3 hours ago
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There's a lot of specialist nautical terminology here. I'm not an expert on this, but I've done a bit of checking with people who know more, and I'm reasonably confident.
For a sailing ship to be carrying an environmental condition - sea state, weather, etc - is a term I'm not terribly familiar with, but I gather it just means to be experiencing that condition.
A high sea is referring to the sea state, how rough the sea is.
Being badly pooped is to have a lot of water breaking over the poop deck, or the rearmost, elevated deck on a sailing ship. Even relatively small sailing ships would have this, even if they have no real forecastle to speak of, because it shield the quarterdeck in front of it, where the helmsman (or coxswain) and captain (if they aren't the same person) are, directing the ship.
Now, I tried to find where the dictionaries online might have gotten this quote, and discovered that they missed out a bit of the middle of it that might make it slightly easier to understand, though it's still obscure to the layman:
"As it grew dark I drew away, and headed up for Plymouth. Off Rame Head, carrying a high sea on the quarter, we were badly pooped" (source: Lonely Road By Nevil Shute)
That makes it more clear what carrying a high sea is meant to mean; on the quarter refers to a direction, between abeam (to one side) and astern. Thus the sea state, the high sea, is being driven from a diagonal direction to one side of and behind the ship. Because of that, there was a lot of water breaking onto the poop deck.
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When we say a ship is 'carrying a high sea" we mean that the sea in which it is sailing is very rough, with waves that are large enough to poop the ship (verb, meaning to break over the stern of the ship causing it to capsize, or nearly do so).
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There's a lot of specialist nautical terminology here. I'm not an expert on this, but I've done a bit of checking with people who know more, and I'm reasonably confident.
For a sailing ship to be carrying an environmental condition - sea state, weather, etc - is a term I'm not terribly familiar with, but I gather it just means to be experiencing that condition.
A high sea is referring to the sea state, how rough the sea is.
Being badly pooped is to have a lot of water breaking over the poop deck, or the rearmost, elevated deck on a sailing ship. Even relatively small sailing ships would have this, even if they have no real forecastle to speak of, because it shield the quarterdeck in front of it, where the helmsman (or coxswain) and captain (if they aren't the same person) are, directing the ship.
Now, I tried to find where the dictionaries online might have gotten this quote, and discovered that they missed out a bit of the middle of it that might make it slightly easier to understand, though it's still obscure to the layman:
"As it grew dark I drew away, and headed up for Plymouth. Off Rame Head, carrying a high sea on the quarter, we were badly pooped" (source: Lonely Road By Nevil Shute)
That makes it more clear what carrying a high sea is meant to mean; on the quarter refers to a direction, between abeam (to one side) and astern. Thus the sea state, the high sea, is being driven from a diagonal direction to one side of and behind the ship. Because of that, there was a lot of water breaking onto the poop deck.
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There's a lot of specialist nautical terminology here. I'm not an expert on this, but I've done a bit of checking with people who know more, and I'm reasonably confident.
For a sailing ship to be carrying an environmental condition - sea state, weather, etc - is a term I'm not terribly familiar with, but I gather it just means to be experiencing that condition.
A high sea is referring to the sea state, how rough the sea is.
Being badly pooped is to have a lot of water breaking over the poop deck, or the rearmost, elevated deck on a sailing ship. Even relatively small sailing ships would have this, even if they have no real forecastle to speak of, because it shield the quarterdeck in front of it, where the helmsman (or coxswain) and captain (if they aren't the same person) are, directing the ship.
Now, I tried to find where the dictionaries online might have gotten this quote, and discovered that they missed out a bit of the middle of it that might make it slightly easier to understand, though it's still obscure to the layman:
"As it grew dark I drew away, and headed up for Plymouth. Off Rame Head, carrying a high sea on the quarter, we were badly pooped" (source: Lonely Road By Nevil Shute)
That makes it more clear what carrying a high sea is meant to mean; on the quarter refers to a direction, between abeam (to one side) and astern. Thus the sea state, the high sea, is being driven from a diagonal direction to one side of and behind the ship. Because of that, there was a lot of water breaking onto the poop deck.
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There's a lot of specialist nautical terminology here. I'm not an expert on this, but I've done a bit of checking with people who know more, and I'm reasonably confident.
For a sailing ship to be carrying an environmental condition - sea state, weather, etc - is a term I'm not terribly familiar with, but I gather it just means to be experiencing that condition.
A high sea is referring to the sea state, how rough the sea is.
Being badly pooped is to have a lot of water breaking over the poop deck, or the rearmost, elevated deck on a sailing ship. Even relatively small sailing ships would have this, even if they have no real forecastle to speak of, because it shield the quarterdeck in front of it, where the helmsman (or coxswain) and captain (if they aren't the same person) are, directing the ship.
Now, I tried to find where the dictionaries online might have gotten this quote, and discovered that they missed out a bit of the middle of it that might make it slightly easier to understand, though it's still obscure to the layman:
"As it grew dark I drew away, and headed up for Plymouth. Off Rame Head, carrying a high sea on the quarter, we were badly pooped" (source: Lonely Road By Nevil Shute)
That makes it more clear what carrying a high sea is meant to mean; on the quarter refers to a direction, between abeam (to one side) and astern. Thus the sea state, the high sea, is being driven from a diagonal direction to one side of and behind the ship. Because of that, there was a lot of water breaking onto the poop deck.
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There's a lot of specialist nautical terminology here. I'm not an expert on this, but I've done a bit of checking with people who know more, and I'm reasonably confident.
For a sailing ship to be carrying an environmental condition - sea state, weather, etc - is a term I'm not terribly familiar with, but I gather it just means to be experiencing that condition.
A high sea is referring to the sea state, how rough the sea is.
Being badly pooped is to have a lot of water breaking over the poop deck, or the rearmost, elevated deck on a sailing ship. Even relatively small sailing ships would have this, even if they have no real forecastle to speak of, because it shield the quarterdeck in front of it, where the helmsman (or coxswain) and captain (if they aren't the same person) are, directing the ship.
Now, I tried to find where the dictionaries online might have gotten this quote, and discovered that they missed out a bit of the middle of it that might make it slightly easier to understand, though it's still obscure to the layman:
"As it grew dark I drew away, and headed up for Plymouth. Off Rame Head, carrying a high sea on the quarter, we were badly pooped" (source: Lonely Road By Nevil Shute)
That makes it more clear what carrying a high sea is meant to mean; on the quarter refers to a direction, between abeam (to one side) and astern. Thus the sea state, the high sea, is being driven from a diagonal direction to one side of and behind the ship. Because of that, there was a lot of water breaking onto the poop deck.
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When we say a ship is 'carrying a high sea" we mean that the sea in which it is sailing is very rough, with waves that are large enough to poop the ship (verb, meaning to break over the stern of the ship causing it to capsize, or nearly do so).
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When we say a ship is 'carrying a high sea" we mean that the sea in which it is sailing is very rough, with waves that are large enough to poop the ship (verb, meaning to break over the stern of the ship causing it to capsize, or nearly do so).
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When we say a ship is 'carrying a high sea" we mean that the sea in which it is sailing is very rough, with waves that are large enough to poop the ship (verb, meaning to break over the stern of the ship causing it to capsize, or nearly do so).
answered 2 hours ago
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When we say a ship is 'carrying a high sea" we mean that the sea in which it is sailing is very rough, with waves that are large enough to poop the ship (verb, meaning to break over the stern of the ship causing it to capsize, or nearly do so).
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There are a lot of meanings of “poop”. This one seems to be a nautical term. Is this the meaning you were looking for? As someone who is not familiar with nautical terminology I am not sure what “carrying a high sea” means in this context, either.
– Mixolydian
3 hours ago
@Mixolydian Good call pointing that out. I am adding the definition to the question.
– Eddie Kal
3 hours ago