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单词 cod's head and mackerel tail
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cod's head and mackerel tail
Nautical. cod's head and mackerel tail: a design for a sailing ship characterized by a full rounded bow and a long tapering body. Also as a modifier. Now historical.
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1842 Mechanics' Mag. 10 Sept. 249/1 The advocated dogma of ‘cod's head and mackerel tail’ of former days in ship building appears to be passed away.
1891 Scribner's Mag. 10 5 Those forms of ships adopted for centuries by some European nations, and known to mariners as ‘cod's-head and mackerel-tail’ shape.
2013 N. Compton Why Sailors can't Swim 25 Around 200 years ago, the ideal shape for a ship was described as a ‘cod's head and mackerel tail’—that is, a bluff bow (front) combined with a fine, streamlined stern (back).
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