| 单词 | to turn end for end |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto turn end for end b. to shift end for end, to turn end for end: to put each end of (a thing) where the other was; chiefly Nautical, to reverse (a rope), to upset (a boat). to go end for end: (of a boat) to be upset. Also in same sense, end over end. ΚΠ a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §2 316 We must turn our Style End for End. 1769 Philos. Trans. 1768 (Royal Soc.) 58 284 The axis of the telescope was turned end for end; that is, the telescope..was turned upside down. 1804 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. I. 224 A heavy sea striking the afterpart, it [the boat] went end for end over. 1805 W. Hunter in Naval Chron. 13 23 It would turn the Cutter end-over-end. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. To shift a rope end for end, as in a tackle, the fall is made the standing part, and the standing part becomes the fall. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 201 He turns commonplaces end for end. 1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. 175 The boat will be thrown..end over end. < as lemmas |
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