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单词 passarado
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passaradon.

Brit. /ˌpasəˈrɑːdəʊ/, U.S. /ˌpɑsəˈrɑdoʊ/
Forms: 1600s pasarado, 1600s passaredo, 1600s passartdo (transmission error), 1600s passerado, 1700s– passarado.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from Spanish. Perhaps a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: Spanish passarín; Italian passerìn, passerino.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps alteration (with suffix substitution: compare -ado suffix) of Spanish †passarín passarado (17th cent.; compare pajaril , in the same sense (c1573)) or its probable etymon Italian regional (Venice) passerìn, in the same sense, variant of Italian passerino (although this is attested only from the 19th cent.), apparently < a transferred use of passerino a kind of bird (14th cent.) < passero sparrow (14th cent.; < classical Latin passer sparrow (see Passeres n.) + -ino -ine suffix4), but the semantic development is unclear; or perhaps alteration (compare -ado suffix) of Spanish pasadera furling-line (1587 as passadera ; c1500 in sense ‘ferry-toll’) < pasar pass v. + -adera ( < classical Latin -ātōria : see -atory suffix1); compare Portuguese passadeira furling-line (18th cent.), and also French passeresse small rope serving to supplement the brails (1836). Compare passaree n.Apparently used only by Capt. J. Smith, and taken up in later dictionaries.
Nautical. Now historical.
= passaree n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > sheet or brace > rope to haul down sheet-block
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1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (MS BL Add. 21571) 184 A Passaredo..is any rape wherewith wee hale down the Sheate-blocks of the Maine and fore-sailes.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 27 Bend your passerado to the mayne sayle, git the sailes to the yeards.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Passartdo [sic], a rope wherewith we hale down the sheat-blocks of the main and fore sails when they are haled aft the clew of the main sail to the cubbridge head of the main mast.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Passarado, is a Rope in a Ship, whereby all the Sheet-Blocks of the Main and Fore-sails are haled down aft... This is to be done when the Ship goes large; and they are also kept firm down, and hindred from flying up, by this Passarado-Rope.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Passaree, or Passarado, a rope..to haul out the clues of the fore-sail to tail-blocks on the booms, so as to full-spread the foot of that sail.
1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 635/1 Passarado, an old name for the rope used to haul down the sheet blocks of the fore and main courses of a square-rigged ship when they were hauled aft.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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