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▪ I. stranded, ppl. a.1|ˈstrændɪd|
[f. strand v.1 + -ed.]
That has been driven ashore; that has run aground.
1703Prior Ode to Mem. Col. George Villiers 43 Some from the stranded Vessel force their Way. 1729Pope Dunc. ii. 287 He..climb'd a stranded lighter's height, Shot to the black abyss, and plung'd downright. 1810Scott Lady of L. iii. i, [They] Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks. 1872Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley S. Sea Bubbles i. 9 The only thing then to be done is to lie quietly where you are, like a stranded whale. 1914A. Plummer Churches in Brit. I. iv. 122 The stranded vessel was got off the beach.
b. transf. and fig. (Cf. strand v.1 2.)
1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. i. 24 [The works of Claude and the Poussins] may be left without grave indignation to their poor mission of furnishing drawing-rooms and assisting stranded conversation. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. I. i. 89 Some stranded nation apart from all the flow of enterprise and knowledge. 1885Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Feb. 5/1 The author..is already favourably known..for his finished pictures of this strange, stranded old-French life. 1901Scotsman 5 Nov. 6/8 The fog lifted a little and the immense array of stranded omnibuses and vans would be able to find their way home.
▪ II. stranded, ppl. a.2|ˈstrændɪd|
[f. strand v.2 and n.4 + -ed.]
1. Of a rope: Having one or more strands broken.
1815Falconer's Dict. Marine (ed. Burney), Stranded,..speaking of a cable or rope, signifies that one of its strands is broken. 1823W. Scoresby Jrnl. 311 Our movements..were effected by means of a stranded (or partly broken) rope. 1888W. E. Nicholson Gloss. Coal Trade Northumb. & Durh. (E.D.D.).
2. Composed of (a specified number of) strands.
1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. x. 313 A four-stranded rope is about one-fifth weaker than a three-stranded one.
3. Composed of strands of wire (strand n.4 1 b).
1888Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 114 The stranded form [of submarine cable] was suggested by Prof. W. Thomson at a meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 1854. 1899J. Pennell in Fortn. Rev. LXV. 120 In the Bowden brake the power is applied by a coiled wire, with a stranded wire inside it. 1903Kelsey Contin. Current Dynamos 199 A stranded conductor is used on account of the immunity thereby obtained from eddy currents.
4. Of a fur garment: made of skins which have been cut into diagonal strips and resewn.
1935O. Hacking Home Furriery iii. 16 Work the next cut in the same way, breaking through the little joins in the centre and sides piece by piece... This way of dealing with the skin gives lovely stranded effects. 1977Lancashire Life Dec. 109/2 (Advt.), A gorgeously rich coat in warm-coloured pastel mink has big revers, beautifully stranded sleeves and a full skirt for perfect winter warmth and elegance. 1978Times 26 Aug. 22/7 Fully stranded new mink coats from {pstlg}950. |