单词 | pump-brake |
释义 | pump-braken. Now chiefly historical. The handle of a (ship's) pump, esp. one having a transverse bar for several persons to work at it; = brake n.4 b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > ship's pumps > devices for working ship's pumps pump-brake1590 brake1626 snipe-bill1750 vangee1846 1590 in K. R. Andrews Eng. Privateering Voy. W. Indies (1959) 75 2 pump brakes of Iron. a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) lf. 60 b Ye Pump-brake Is the handle theie pumpe by in the ordinary sort of pumpes. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pump The Pump-Brake, by which the People pump up Water. 1791 W. Hutchinson Treat. Best Form Merchant's Ships 247 Those at the sucking pumps could not continue striking them above five minutes at a spell, by the pump brakes working breast high, which soon tires the arms and greatly fatigues the men working them. 1818 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1 369 Let the pump-brake, or handle, be in the form and position of a pretty heavy pendulum. 1864 Sci. Amer. 29 Oct. 280/1 On the end of the pinion shaft is a crank which connects to a rod, D, which in turn works the pump brake, E. 1901 Munsey's Mag. Aug. 683/2 As the captain came on deck..the cook struck him over the head with a pump brake, knocking him down. 1935 PMLA 50 520 Burns paid off his dragoons because his prize was at last afloat, and there was no longer need of their aid on the pump-brakes. 2002 Jrnl. Field Archeol. 29 380/2 A pump-brake windlass, which was introduced during the 1840s and continued in use into the 20th century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1590 |
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