| 单词 | to bend the cable |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bend the cable 4. Nautical. To tie, fasten on, make fast (cf. bend n.1 3): e.g. to bend a rope. to bend the cable: to fasten it to the ring of the anchor. to bend a sail: ‘to extend or make it fast to its proper yard or stay’ (Adm. Smyth). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (transitive)] fastenOE fasta1225 tachec1315 to-seta1340 catcha1350 affichea1382 to put ona1382 tacka1387 to put to1396 adjoina1400 attach?a1400 bend1399 spyndec1400 to-tachc1400 affixc1448 complexc1470 setc1480 attouch1483 found?1541 obligate1547 patch1549 alligate1563 dight1572 inyoke1595 infixa1616 wreathe1643 adlige1650 adhibit1651 oblige1656 adent1658 to bring to1681 engage1766 superfix1766 to lap on1867 accrete1870 1399 Rich. Redeless iv. 72 They bente on a bonet, and bare a topte saile Affor the wynde ffresshely, to make a good ffare. c1440 Morte Arth. (Roxb.) 34 A clothe that ouer the bote was bente Sir Gawayne lyfte vp and wente in bayne. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 16 Bend your cables to your Anchors. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §262 We concluded..to bend our sails (which had indeed been all unbent and stowed down in the hold for the summer) and try to gain Plymouth Sound. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xv. 245 He desired Mr. Falcon to get new sails up and bend them. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Bending the Cable, the operation of clinching, or tying the cable to the ring of its anchor. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Bending ropes is to join them together with a bowline knot, and then make their own ends fast upon themselves. < as lemmas |
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