| 单词 | housing in |
| 释义 | > as lemmashousing in a. housing in: the curving or sloping inwards of the sides of a ship above the broadest part (cf. to house in at house v.1 Phrasal verbs); = tumbling home at tumbling n. 2. Now historical.Housing in was characteristic of wooden warships, where the decreased width of the upper works helped to compensate for the weight of the heavy gun decks, while the inward slope above the waterline made the ship more difficult to board by force. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > methods of construction or working housing in1627 whole moulding1711 anchor stock fashion1780 bracket system1874 shadow-building1891 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xi. 52 The howsing in of a Ship is when shee is past the bredth of her bearing she is brought in narrow to her vpper workes. 1799 Vocab. Sea Phrases II. 222 Rentrée,..tumbling home of the top timbers, or housing in. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 702 In all old sea-books this narrowing of a ship from the extreme breadth upwards is called housing in. 2005 I. Dear & P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea (ed. 2) at Tumble-home The amount by which the two sides of a ship are brought in towards the centreline after reaching their maximum beam... The older term, tumbling-home, had an even earlier one, housing-in. < as lemmas |
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