单词 | head-plate |
释义 | head-platen. 1. a. Gunnery. A metal plate covering the cheeks of a gun carriage. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun] > other parts of carriage tail-pin1497 brack1622 head-plate1647 transom1688 prise-bolt1705 bracket1753 bracket-bolt1753 pintle1769 rider1779 trail-plate-eye1828 cleat1834 wheel-guard1860 spade1862 nave-hole1867 chassis1869 turntable1889 gun-crutch1898 trail-spade1904 1647 W. Eldred Gunners Glasse 30 The said Carriage thus prepared, is to be strengthened and bound with plates of Iron work,..two at the head of the Carriage called Head-plates. 1808 S. Mackay tr. I. A. de Lacroix French Artillerist x. 37 Q. What are the irons requisite for a field-piece carriage? A. Two rivetted bolts.., 2 head-plates, 2 trail-plates, [etc.]. 1842 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. 164/2 Head plate of a gun carriage covering the fore part of the cheeks. 2005 C. Henry Eng. Civil War Artillery 28 (caption) Head-plate. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > ornament head-plate1781 1781 in A. G. L. Rogers Rogers's Hist. Agric. & Prices (1902) VII. 484/1 New Handsome Post Coach..the Rooff..Covered with the best Neats Leather Jappand and welted plated Mouldings and head Plates. 1784 in T. J. Wertenbaker Patrician & Plebeian in Virginia (1910) i. 122 The chaise was to be very handsome.., the roof and upper panels to have plated mouldings and head plates. 1789 Morning Post 16 July 3/3 To be Sold or Let, a Perch Phaeton with head and knee flaps, silver mouldings round the pannels and head-plate. 1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 183 Head plates..are ornaments made..to fix on the upper quarters of a coach or chariot, and on the slats of a chaise head. 1809 Sporting Mag. 33 276 The crests, in raised silver, will be placed in a garter in the head-plates. 1837 W. B. Adams Eng. Pleasure Carriages xiv. 215 Crests or head plates are objectionable, and seem mere excrescences quite out of place. c. Saddlery. A metal plate on the cantle of a saddle-tree. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle saddle-boweOE arsonc1300 saddle skirt1361 saddle-tree1364 skirtc1400 saddle panel1465 stock-tree1470 stock1497 pommela1500 tree1535 pillion cloth1540 port1548 saddle stock1548 pilch1552 bolster1591 cantle1591 shank-pilliona1599 pillowc1600 pad1604 crutch1607 sivet1607 saddle crutcha1614 saddle eaves1663 saddle tore1681 burr1688 head1688 narve1688 saddle seat1688 sidebar1688 torea1694 quarter1735 bands of a saddle1753 witherband1764 withers1764 peak1775 pillion-stick1784 boot-housing1792 saddle flap1798 saddle lap1803 fork1833 flap1849 horn1849 skirting1852 hunting-horn1854 head-plate1855 saddle horn1856 cantle bar1859 leaping-horn1859 straining1871 stirrup-bar1875 straining-leather1875 spring tree1877 leaping-head1881 officer-tree1894 monkey1911 monkey-strap1915 thigh roll1963 straining-web- 1855 Technologisches Wörterbuch II. 436/2 Some parts of the heavy-cavalry saddle-tree are:.. The head-plate, point-plate, Das Vorderblech. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1086/2 Head-plate,..the plate strengthening the point or cantle of a saddle-tree. 1981 E. H. Edwards Country Life Bk. Saddlery & Equipm. 48/3 A gullet plate is fitted on the underside of the pommel, while a head plate is placed on top. 2004 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 13 Feb. 32 A system of interchangeable headplates ensures the perfect width fitting for every size horse or pony. 2. Zoology. A bony or chitinous plate forming (part of) the outer surface of an animal's head; (in an arthropod) the head capsule, or one of the sclerites forming it; (in a reptile) any of the scales on the head. ΚΠ 1836 W. E. Shuckard tr. H. Burmeister Man. Entomol. §53. 37 Larvæ with a distinct corneous head-plate [Ger. Kopfschild]. 1893 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1891–3 2 208 Mouth.—Consisting of a siphon directed forwards from the frontal margin of the head plate. 1959 Copeia 1 50/1 The head plates are often highly modified. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xi. 153/1 Pteraspidomorphi..derive their alternative name from impressions on the inside of the head plates indicating two separate olfactory bulbs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1647 |
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