单词 | rope-band |
释义 | † rope-bandn. Nautical. Obsolete. = roband n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes securing sail to yard headline1294 rope-bend1294 roband1336 robbin1497 raeband1513 rope-yard1611 earing1626 leech-line1626 rope-band1769 jackstay1834 roving1837 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant v. 150 Rope-bands and Ear-rings, as big as the Reef-lines, and ½ longer, put together. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Rope-bands, pronounced roebins, certain pieces of small rope, or braided cordage, used to tie the upper edges of the great sails to their respective yards. 1866 tr. V. Hugo Toilers of Sea ii. ix. 90/2 With all the sail, rope-bands, and all the reef-earrings he could collect, he made packages of the fragments of wreck. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 579 Rope-bands, small plaited lines rove through the eyelet holes with a running eye, by which the head of a sail, after the earings are secured, is brought to the yard or jackstay. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1711 |
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