英语词汇“fish-tail-jet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

The tail of a fish. Chiefly attributive of things resembling a fish's tail in shape or action, e.g. a spreading flame from a kind of gas-burner, hence called fish-tail burner, fish-tail-jet (also shortened fish-tail).

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1840 Mechanics' Mag. 32 343/2 The best small light is..the fish-tail jet.

1852 J. Bourne Treat. Screw Propeller 56 Fowles's Fish-tail Propeller.

1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. Oct. I turned on a fishtail burner.

c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 128/2 In the case of cannel coal, the holes are small; and for common London gas they are rather large. The former are known by the name of Lancashire or Scotch fish-tails.

1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table (1885) x. 247 We have no more reverence for the sun than we have for a fish-tail gas burner.

1892 Daily News 29 Mar. 6/6 I spliced it to the bedstead, in what they call a fishtail knot.

1931 Vanity Fair Nov. 78/2 Fishtailing, which is swishing the machine from side to side to reduce the forward speed, explains a fishtail landing as zig-zagging after touching ground, in order to slow down when coming into a small field.

1939 M. B. Picken Lang. Fashion 57/3 Fish-tail, shaped like tail of fish; having cut-out V in end.—f[ish-tail] drapery, train, as on a formal gown, shaped like fish-tail.

1963 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 8 Drag bit (fishtail bit, pilot bit), a rotary bit which has two or more cutting blades or wings with hard~faced cutting edges. (Various types are the two-wing, three-wing, fishtail and pilot bits.)

单词	fish-tail-jet
释义	> as lemmas fish-tail-jet The tail of a fish. Chiefly attributive of things resembling a fish's tail in shape or action, e.g. a spreading flame from a kind of gas-burner, hence called fish-tail burner, fish-tail-jet (also shortened fish-tail). ΚΠ 1840 Mechanics' Mag. 32 343/2 The best small light is..the fish-tail jet. 1852 J. Bourne Treat. Screw Propeller 56 Fowles's Fish-tail Propeller. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. Oct. I turned on a fishtail burner. c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 128/2 In the case of cannel coal, the holes are small; and for common London gas they are rather large. The former are known by the name of Lancashire or Scotch fish-tails. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table (1885) x. 247 We have no more reverence for the sun than we have for a fish-tail gas burner. 1892 Daily News 29 Mar. 6/6 I spliced it to the bedstead, in what they call a fishtail knot. 1931 Vanity Fair Nov. 78/2 Fishtailing, which is swishing the machine from side to side to reduce the forward speed, explains a fishtail landing as zig-zagging after touching ground, in order to slow down when coming into a small field. 1939 M. B. Picken Lang. Fashion 57/3 Fish-tail, shaped like tail of fish; having cut-out V in end.—f[ish-tail] drapery, train, as on a formal gown, shaped like fish-tail. 1963 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 8 Drag bit (fishtail bit, pilot bit), a rotary bit which has two or more cutting blades or wings with hard~faced cutting edges. (Various types are the two-wing, three-wing, fishtail and pilot bits.) extracted from fish-tailn.adj. < as lemmas
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