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单词 futtock
释义 futtock Naut.|ˈfʌtək|
Also 8 foot-hook.
[prob., as already suggested in quot. 1644, a pronunciation of foot-hook (see quot. 1769).]
1. One of the middle timbers of the frame of a ship, between the floor and the top timbers.
1611Cotgr., Cour-baston..(in a ship) a crooked peece of tymber, tearmed a Knee, or Futtocke.1644H. Manwayring Sea-mans Dict., Futtocks, this word is commonly pronounced but I thinke more properly it should be called Foote-hookes; for the Futtocks are those compassing timbers, which give the bredth and bearing to the ship, which are scarfed to the ground-timbers.1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1776), Futtocks, the middle division of a ship's timbers: or those parts which are situated between the floor and the top-timbers..As the epithet hooked is..applied.. to several crooked timbers in a ship, as the breast-hooks, fore-hooks, after-hooks, &c., this term is evidently derived from the lowest part or foot of the timber and from the shape of the piece.1789G. Keate Pelew Isl. 94 The jolly-boat was dispatched to..fetch some timbers for futtocks.1832Marryat N. Forster iii, Several of the lower futtocks and timbers still hung together.1846Addison Contracts ii. vii. §2 (1883) 998 The twenty-two broken futtocks of the vessel were concealed only by the ballast.c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 120 Futtocks..are named according to their situation, that nearest the keel being called the first futtock; the next above, the second futtock, etc.
2. Comb., as futtock-mould, futtock-rigging, futtock-timber. Also futtock-head, -hole, -hoop (see quots.); futtock-plank, = limber-strake; futtock-plate, one of the iron plates crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly, to which the futtock-shrouds are secured; futtock-rider (see quot. 1867); futtock-shroud, one of the small shrouds which secure the lower dead-eyes and futtock-plates of top-mast rigging to a band round a lower mast; futtock-staff, -stave (see quots.).
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Futtock-head, in ship⁓building, is a name for the 5th, the 7th, and the 9th diagonals.
1846Young Naut. Dict. s.v. Futtock-shrouds, They are often formed by a continuation of the topmast rigging coming down through holes in the top, called *futtock-holes.1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Futtock-holes, places through the top rim for the futtock-plates.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 931 *Futtock-hoop, a hoop encircling the mast at a point below the head, and serving for the attachment of the shackles of the futtock-shrouds.
1664E. Bushnell Compl. Shipwright 19 The..*futtock-Mould is hauled downward.
1846Young Naut. Dict., Limber-strake..sometimes called the *futtock-plank.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) M m ij, An iron band, called the *foot-hook-plate.1841R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 106 Futtock-plates.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Eguillettes..the *futtock-riders.1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Futtock-riders when a rider is lengthened by means of pieces batted or scarphed to it and each other, the first piece is termed the first futtock-rider, the next the second futtock-rider, and so on.
c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 17 What is the name of the rigging from the necklace to the top rims? *Futtock-rigging.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) M m ij, A rope called the *foot-hook-shroud.1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast vi. 13 He fell from the star-board futtock shrouds.1861H. Kingsley Ravenshoe vi, Clinging to the futtock shrouds.
1841R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 106 *Futtock-staff, a short piece of wood or iron, seized across the upper part of the rigging, to which the catharpin legs are secured.
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 166 *Futtock-stave, a short piece of rope served over with spun-yarn, to which the shrouds are confined at the catharpins.
1841R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 107 *Futtock-timbers, those timbers between the floor and navel timbers and the top timbers.
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