| 单词 | speck-tackle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspeck-tackle 2. attributive in the names of tackle or apparatus used in dealing with whale-speck, as speck-block, speck-fall, speck-purchase, speck-tackle, speck-trough, speck-tub (see quots.). ΚΠ 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 299 The harpooners..divide the fat into oblong pieces or ‘slips’..; then affixing a ‘speck-tackle’ to each slip, progressively flay it off, as it is drawn upward. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 306 The ‘speck-trough’..consists of a kind of oblong box or chest, about twelve feet in length. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 121 The speck-falls, whereof there are two, for hoisting the blubber and bone off the whale, are ropes rove through two blocks made fast to the blubber-guy. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 290 Speck-block. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Spike-tackle and cant-falls, the ropes and blocks used in whalers to sling their prey to the side of the ship. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Spike-tub, a vessel in which the fat of bears, seals, and minor quarry is set aside till a ‘making off’ gives an opportunity for adding it to the blubber in the hold. 1874 A. H. Markham Whaling Cruise 133 The fish is taken in, in four hoists, with the fore and main spek tackles. < as lemmas |
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