| 单词 | rope breeching |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrope breeching rope breeching n. a rope used to secure a gun to part of a vessel so as to counteract the recoil. ΚΠ 1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 317/2 A rope breeching is apt to break, and has often proved dangerous; for the gun, with a breeching, goes nearly as far back as the rope will stretch. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 79/1 The former size [of gun] may be used with a rope-breeching, which is attached to the bows of the punt. 1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 18/1 Fifteen minutes sufficed to strip the green canvas-cover from the breech of the long gun mounted in the punt.., to adjust the rope-breeching for recoil, and to stow away the cripple-stoppers. 2006 S. Tucker Blue & Gray Navies ii. 58 On ‘fire’ he sharply pulled the lanyard, which fired the gun and caused the gun and its carriage to recoil sharply back on its rope breeching. < as lemmas |
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