Timeline for The meaning of "to have the rudders down directly"
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| Dec 7, 2018 at 1:19 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @RossMurray Have a heart! A lot of the fun of reading Kipling is the joy he takes in the practise and technical language of craftsmen and professionals. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 1:10 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 0:56 | comment | added | Ross Murray | Is this a question about nautical terminology? If I was reading this for enjoyment, I would skim over this and not even bother trying to understand it. I know what words like mast, sail, board, and gust mean, and that's enough to determine that understanding this section is not necessary for me to understand the story. Without wanting to discourage or sound critical of the questioner, I wonder if questions about the terminology of specialist fields belong here. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 0:31 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | Can you edit your question and explain a little more about what's puzzling you? I assume you know what a rudder is, but I wouldn't want to spend 20 minutes telling you what "down directly" means only to find out that "have the rudders" was the part that was confusing you. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 0:30 | history | edited | J.R.♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 7, 2018 at 0:08 | history | asked | Hiroshi Inagaki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |