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单词 bower-cable
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bower-cable
2. More fully called bower-anchor, bower-cable.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > main or bower anchor
plight-anchor1508
plicht?a1513
bow-anchor1627
best bowera1647
bower-anchor1652
bower1709
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor rope or cable > belonging to specific anchor
sheet-cable1611
stream-cable1618
long service1662
bower-cable1748
sheet-shot1750
1652 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 142. 2223 My..best bower Ancher hooked in one of his Ports.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. ii. 132 A violent gust of wind..instantly parted our small bower cable.
1779 C. Clerke Jrnl. 7 May in J. Cook Jrnls. (1967) III. i. 655 Part of the Ice..brought home our Small Bower Anchor.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iv. 205 By sure bower-anchor hangs and swings the tight war-ship.
figurative.1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII iii. 6 Theirs is the best bower-anchor, the chain cable Which hold fast other pleasures.1874 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David IV. Ps. lxxxix. 1 The divine faithfulness..is the bower anchor of the soul.
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