单词 | flinders |
释义 | flindersn.1 With plural (and occasionally singular) agreement. a. Fragments, pieces, splinters. Chiefly in phrases, as to break or fly in(to flinders. Cf. flitters n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > fragments fardel1508 flinders1508 fitters1532 brockle1552 shells1578 frush1582 flitters1620 shattersa1640 spillikin1857 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. ciiii Thair speris in the feild in flendris gart ga. 1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 264 The bow in flenderis flew. 1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' in Chambers Pop. Poems Scotl. (1862) 32 He'll their doors to flinders toss. 1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) ii. 51 At length she [his gun] bounc'd out-owr a tree, In mony a flinner. 1840 R. Browning Sordello vi. 437 Flinders enrich the strand, and veins the rock. 1847 C. Kingsley New Forest Ballad in Poems 30 The metal good and the walnut wood Did soon in flinders flee. 1948 E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxx. 75 And the Osservanza is broken And the best de la Robbia busted to flinders. 1971 W. S. Burroughs, Jr. Speed 42 About noon the transmission went all to flinders. b. transferred. Pieces, scraps. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > torn off > torn strip(s) stripping1601 targeta1774 rata1796 in ribbons1820 flinders1869 1869 J. Greenwood Seven Curses London ii. 19 Her draggletail flinders of lace and ribbon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Flindersn.2 Flinders bar n. (also Flinders bars) a soft iron bar or bundle of rods, placed vertically near a ship's compass to correct deviation due to magnetic induction and to lessen the heeling-error. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > compass > effect of iron on compass > devices used to correct deviation deflector1837 Flinders bar1881 1881 W. Thomson in Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. XXIV. 408 The Flinders bar essentially corrects..the constituent of the heeling error, which has its maximum values on the east and west courses. 1895 F. J. Evans Elem. Man. Deviations Compass in Iron Ships (ed. 9) xi. 119 Sir W. Thomson in his patent compass has adopted a malleable iron bar..which he has called a ‘Flinders' bar’ after its accomplished inventor. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 181/2 A method of correcting deviation by means of a bar of vertical iron so placed as to correct the deviation nearly in all latitudes. This bar, now known as a ‘Flinders bar’, is still in general use. 1924 R. Clements Gipsy of Horn (1925) 217 The binnacle was useless..for the Flinders-bars had gone with the sky-light. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 822/1 A ‘flinders’ bar, a soft iron bar mounted vertically on the binnacle, will..correct that part of the deviation that is due to the induced vertical fields. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11508n.21881 |
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