| 单词 | quarter block |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter block quarter block n. Nautical a block fitted under the quarter of a yard (see sense 24b). ΚΠ 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Poulies de retour d'écoutes de hune, the quarter-blocks for the top-sail sheets. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 157 Thick-and-thin, or Quarter block, is a double block..used to lead down the topsail-sheets and clue-lines. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 38 Topsail sheets when made of chain are rove through gins instead of quarter blocks. 1926 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 25 Aug. 4/3 A lower mainsheet block and two quarter-blocks, fathoms of galvanized chain, and two Nicholson's patent anchors. 2005 I. Dear & P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea (ed. 2) 449/2 Quarter blocks... are used to turn down to the deck running rigging, such as the sheets of an upper sail and clew lines of the lower sail, that runs along the yard. < as lemmas |
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