单词 | knife-blade |
释义 | > as lemmasknife-blade knife-blade n. (a) the blade of a knife; (b) something sharp or pointed; (c) in Mountaineering, a kind of piton (see quot. 1968); also attributive and in other combinations. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > blade blade1330 tool1653 knife-blade1738 the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [noun] > sharp edge edgeOE facea1382 cutting edge1825 knife-edge1871 knife-blade1902 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > artificial aid > types of runner1688 runner ring1791 ice axec1800 alpenstock1829 rope1838 climbing-iron1857 piolet1868 snap-link1875 prickera1890 middleman('s) knot (also loop, noose, etc.)1892 chock1894 glacier-rope1897 piton1898 run-out1901 belaying-pin1903 snap-ring1903 ironmongery1904 line1907 Tricouni1914 ice claw1920 peg1920 sling1920 ice piton1926 ice hammer1932 karabiner1932 rock piton1934 thread belay1935 mugger1941 running belay1941 piton hammer1943 sky-hook1951 etrier1955 pied d'éléphant1956 rope sling1957 piton runner1959 bong1960 krab1963 rurp1963 ice screw1965 nut1965 traverse line1965 jumar1966 knife-blade1968 tie-off1968 rock peg1971 whammer1971 Whillans whammer1971 Whillans harness1974 1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory v. 129 To etch 100 or more Knife Blades at once. 1902 Daily Chron. 12 Sept. 3/2 The snowy knife-blade arète. 1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons i. 44 The knife-blade-like larvæ of the eel. 1950 J. Dempsey Championship Fighting x. 49 All fingers, including the thumb, pressing tightly against each other to form a ‘knife blade’. 1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 106 A shallow basin gives the fish no shade, Dive as they will, there's flash of fin's knife-blade. 1968 P. Crew Encycl. Dict. Mountaineering 75/2 Knife-blade, a long thin piton. The name is mainly applied to chrome-molly pitons of this type. 1971 D. Haston in C. Bonington Annapurna South Face xvii. 206 It was a long and tortuous pitch done in one run-out on one of our big ropes. Firstly knee-deep mushy snow, then hard ice to exit, with one miserable knife-blade for protection. < as lemmas |
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