| 单词 | palleting-beam |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspalleting-beam A raised platform in the magazine of a warship on which the powder barrels are stored. Also attributive, as palleting-beam, palleting hatch.Recorded earliest in compounds. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > platforms to keep out water mangerc1620 palleting1750 1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 114 Palleting, the Floor of the Bread-room and Magazine of Powder, generally wrought of ordinary Deal, and is laid above the Keelson, for keeping the Bread and Powder dry. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Palletting Hatches..are small apertures..formed by the palletting-beams and carlings in the fore-magazine. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 95 Palleting-Beams are those beams under the flat of the magazine, bread-room, and powder-room, where there is a double palleting. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 136 Palleting, a slight platform made above the bottom of the magazine, to keep the powder from moisture. 1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 627/2 Palletting, a raised platform in the magazines of older warships on which the powder barrels were stored to keep them dry. < as lemmas |
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