单词 | razing-iron |
释义 | > as lemmasrazing-iron razing-iron n. Nautical, now historical a tool used for cleaning out a ship's seams, or for marking items. ΚΠ 1833 Times 9 Mar. 6/7 About 20 logs of mahogany have been picked up and are marked with a razing iron ‘F’. 1844 Trial of Pedro de Zulueta 321 I numbered each stave, stave by stave, till I had completed the circle of thirty or forty staves... I razed them with a proper razing iron. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 561 Rasing-Iron, a tool for clearing the pitch and oakum out of the seams, previous to their being caulked afresh. 1945 Irish Maritime Surv. 328 Raising iron, a chisel for removing old caulking. In seaman's parlance, it is called a rave-hook. < as lemmas |
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