单词 | chain-plate |
释义 | chain-platen. 1. Nautical. One of the strong links or plates of iron fastened to the ship's side under the chainwale, to which the shrouds are secured. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > rigging supporting mast laterally > chains or chain-plates chain1627 chain-plate1692 stopper-bolt1711 chain1720 channel plate1833 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xiv. 64 Main Chains and Chain Plaits. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Cadenes de hauban, the chains of the shrouds, the chain-plates. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 106 We were loaded down to the bolts of our chain-plates. 2. Architecture. One of a series of connected plates built into the walls of a building to give it greater stability: cf. chain n. 10. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > joist > wood or iron to increase cohesion of wall chain1765 chain-timber1823 chain-bond1842 chain-plate1842 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 512 The best remedy against this inconvenience [sc. settlement of the foundation] is to tie the walls together by the means of chain plates. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1692 |
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