单词 | ripping iron |
释义 | > as lemmasripping iron ripping iron n. ΚΠ 1750 Trials Prisoners Assizes Maidstone (ed. 2) 5/2 Lunn Reyney and Margaret Bell, were indicted for feloniously stealing out of his Majesty's Dock..two Ripping Irons. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Ripping-Iron, a tool used in stripping copper, or thin wood-sheathing, off a vessel's bottom. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Ripping-Iron, a caulker's tool for tearing oakum out of a seam. 1904 F. Bailey Lure o' Gold xiv. 160 The long, slim ripping iron, which looked like an attenuated, flattened cold chisel, was brought and inserted into one of the cracks. < as lemmas |
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