| 单词 | left-hand rope |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleft-hand rope left-hand rope n. rope made by twisting the strands in an anticlockwise direction; cf. right-hand rope n. at right hand n. and adj. Compounds and left-handed rope n. at left-handed adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1845 S. F. Every Art of Netting vi. 50 The cork and lead lines of Sienes are double, that is to say two lines put together, which when they were made were twisted different ways, left hand rope and right hand rope. 1859 Hunt's Yachting Mag. Nov. 484 Cable laid rope, or left hand rope,..that is laid from left to right, or against the sun. 1941 T. A. H. Peacocke Mountaineering ii. 22 Another way of distinguishing the right-hand or left-hand rope is to view it from the end. The right-hand rope has a clockwise twist and the left hand anti-clockwise. 2006 Cranes Today May 41 Right hand drums should operate with a left hand rope. < as lemmas |
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