| 单词 | raking piece |
| 释义 | > as lemmasraking piece raking piece n. (a) Theatre a low sloping piece of stage scenery, often a ramp; †(b) a part of the support for the arch of a bridge (obsolete). ΚΠ ?1823 J. H. Payne Clari ii [Scenery for Act 3d] Set raking piece. 1839 S. C. Brees App. to Railway Pract. Gloss. 294 The best way of supporting the striking plates upon which the whole [bridge arch] rests, is by strutting or raking pieces resting upon sills laid upon the top of the footings. 1874 C. Reade Let. in J. Hollingshead Gaiety Chron. (1898) 139 Don't let the line of Kings [in Macbeth] go crushing down a raking piece, and pound the earth to show they are shadows. Draw them slowly and smoothly across the scene. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1877/2 Raking-pieces, pieces laid upon sills supported by the footings or impost of a pier. Above them are the striking-plates. 1898 ‘P. McGinnis’ Bohemian Girl 124 The theatre was like a barn, and we had to get to our dressing-room up a raking-piece with ribs nailed across it. 1940 B. Hewitt Art & Craft Play Prod. vii. 159 A ground row or raking piece, representing rising ground. < as lemmas |
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