| 单词 | rocket pole |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrocket pole rocket pole n. †(a) the stick (stick n.1 5c) of a firework rocket, esp. a large one (obsolete); (b) a tall pole erected on high ground by the sea to which the rocket line is attached by a coastguard during practice. ΚΠ 1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (rev. ed.) App. p. xli How to proportion the Rocket-Poles. 1887 J. F. Keane Six Months in Hejaz 121 A twelve-foot rocket-pole, after a descent of nearly three thousand feet, might hurt a man, if it did not harpoon him clean. 1921 D. H. Edwards Among Fisher Folks Usan & Ferryden 23 The rocket is properly fixed to the line; the ‘racket pole’ on the corner of the braeface at the other side of the harbour is the storm-tossed ship. 2009 www.happisburgh.org 8 May (O.E.D. Archive) For practice purposes a rocket pole was erected on the cliff top to represent the mast of a vessel. < as lemmas |
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