| 单词 | sheepshank knot |
| 释义 | > as lemmassheepshank(s) knot 2. Nautical. In full †sheepshank(s) knot: A knot cast on a rope for temporarily shortening it without cutting it or unfastening the ends.Formed by doubling the rope in three parts and taking a hitch over the bight at each end with the other rope (Voyle).⁋By a printer's or clerical error in Manwayring's Seaman's Dictionary (1644), the explanation of Sheep-shanck and the heading of the following article Sheeres were omitted. Hence Randle Holme Armoury iii. 166/1 erroneously explains Sheepshank as ‘two Poles set across where a Block is hung’ etc. (= shear n.1 4). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors > specific bowline-knot1627 clinch1627 sheepshank1627 wall-knot1627 running bowline1710 running bowline knot1726 bend1769 clove-hitch1769 half-hitch1769 hitch1769 walnut1769 cat's paw1794 midshipman's hitch1794 reef knot1794 clench1804 French shroud knot1808 carrick bend1819 bowline1823 slippery hitch1832 wall1834 Matthew Walker1841 shroud-knot1860 stopper-knotc1860 marling hitch1867 wind-knot1870 Portuguese knot1871 rosette1875 chain knota1877 stopper-hitch1876 swab-hitch1883 monkey fist1917 Spanish bowline1968 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > any knot used by sailors > other specific sailors' knots bowline-knot1627 clinch1627 sheepshank1627 wall-knot1627 running bowline1710 running bowline knot1726 bend1769 clove-hitch1769 half-hitch1769 hitch1769 walnut1769 Magnus hitch1794 midshipman's hitch1794 clench1804 French shroud knot1808 carrick bend1819 bowline1823 slippery hitch1832 wall1834 cat's paw1840 Matthew Walker1841 shroud-knot1860 stopper-knotc1860 Portuguese knot1871 chain knota1877 stopper-hitch1876 swab-hitch1883 Spanish bowline1968 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 26 Sheepshanks Knot. The last is the Shepshanke, which is a knot they cast vpon a Runner or Tackle when it is too long to take in the goods, and by this knot they can shorten a rope without cutting it. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Sheep-shank, a..knot..on a rope, to shorten it as occasion requires. 1788 Chambers's Cycl. (new ed.) at Knot The sheep-shank-knot. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. vi. 65 Pass that brace through the bull's eye, and take the sheepshank out before you come down. 1870 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 246 When both ends of the rope are fast, the ‘sheep~shank’ or, as it is sometimes called, the dogshank shortening is used. < as lemmas |
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