单词 | puttock-shroud |
释义 | > as lemmasputtock-shroud In square-rigged vessels: each of the short shrouds connecting the lower shrouds with the top; (also, where there is a topgallant mast) each of the short shrouds connecting the topmast shrouds with the topgallant top; = futtock-shroud n. at futtock n. Compounds 2. In later use more fully puttock-shroud. Also figurative.Recorded earliest in puttock ring n. at Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > rigging supporting mast laterally > shrouds of topmast puttock1298 top-shroud1485 futtock-shroud1769 1298–9 Naval Acct. in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1982) III. 81 j noua ankora empta et veteri ankora et putokrynges emendand' ix s. iij d..Et in j cleto empto cum Putokrynges et iij chopis emptis xvj d. c1350 Naval Acct. in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1982) III. 79 ij cord veteribus ab eodem empt pro puttokes et ad furrurand ancor. 1514–15 in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1982) III. 79 Shrowdes with dedemens hies xiiij. potokes et halyers to the same. 1582 R. Madox Diary 24 July in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 155 The mayn topmast..fawling to leewar(d) dyd tear the mayn top much and hanged by the puttocks. a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) f. 100 Puttocks, are the small Shrowdes which goo from the Shrowdes of the Main, Fore and Missen masts and also to the Topmast shrowdes, if the Topmast have a topp gallant topp, the use whereof is to goo of the shrowdes into the Topp, for when the shrowdes come neare upp to the mast they fall in so much that otherwise they could not gett into the Topp from them. The Puttocks goo..above to a plate of Iron or to a Deadman-eie to which the Lanniers of the Topmast Shrowdes doe come. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 19 The top-Masts shrouds..are fastened with Lanniers and dead mens eyes to the Puttocks or plats of iron belonging to them, aloft ouer the head of the Mast. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 113 The Puttock Shrowds binding the main Shrowds and Top-mast Shrowds together. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. viii. 81 One of the..dead-eyes was broke, as was also a main-shroud and puttock-shroud. 1758 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle (ed. 2) III. lxxiii. 6 Expressing his hope, that..he shou'd be able to surmount the puttock-shrouds of despair, and get aloft to the cross-trees of God's good favour. 1848 Times 20 July 7/7 A boy named Woodford, aged 14, one of the naval apprentices, was killed on board the Victory on Monday, by falling from the puttock shrouds into the chains, and thence overboard. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Puttock-shrouds, synonymous with futtock; a word in use, but not warranted. 1927 R. C. Anderson Rigging of Ships vi. 110 To get over this difficulty the dead-eyes were given ‘puttock-plates’ of metal and the puttocks or futtock-shrouds were attached to these below the tops. < as lemmas |
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