| 单词 | muzzle lashing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmuzzle lashing muzzle lashing n. Nautical (now historical) (a) each of the ropes used to lash the muzzle of a cannon so as to confine it to the upper part of a gun port; (b) slang (in plural), whiskers. ΚΠ 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Muzzle-lashings, are two and a half inch ropes, about four or five fathoms in length, used to lash the muzzles of guns, so as to confine them to the upper part of the ports. 1824 London Lit. Gaz. 26 June 412/1 I know it's a hard matter for him to sit dumb-foundered when his muzzle-lashings are once cast off. Out tomkins, Sam, and fire away. 1829 W. N. Glascock Sailors & Saints 28 Tell him to bear a hand aft: the second leaftenant wants his muzzle-lashing off in a crack. 1850 H. Melville White-jacket lxxxvii. 424 Sir, our muzzle-lashings are cast off! 1942 National Geographic Mag. June (Picture Insert 746–755) (caption) Windjammer sailors called such beards ‘muzzle lashings’. < as lemmas |
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