| 单词 | rising timber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrising timber rising timber n. Shipbuilding (now historical) (usually in plural) = rising floor n. (b). ΚΠ c1620 Treat. Shipbuilding (modernized text) in W. Salisbury & R. C. Anderson Treat. Shipbuilding & Treat. Rigging (1958) 8 After those flats, when they [sc. the ship's frame-timbers] rise and narrow more sensibly they are called rising timbers, the narrowing and rising whereof do make the gripe forward on and the run aftward on..and where the line directing these timbers intersect is called the tuck. 1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services 98 The Hooks placed on the Keel are named Rising-Timbers, in respect that according to the Rising by degrees of these Hooks, so the Rake..and the Run..rise by degrees from her Flat-floor. 1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation ii. ii. §i. 133 The breeches of the rising timbers. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 230 It [sc. the cutting-down line]..must be carried up so high upon the stern as to leave sufficient substance for the breeches of the rising timbers. 1914 Trans. Soc. Naval Architects & Marine Engineers 22 141 It was decided that oak should be used for the flooring and rising timbers of the frigates. 1988 Technol. & Culture 29 948 The determination of the rising (or sweep of rising timbers). < as lemmas |
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