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单词 breastwork
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breastworkn.

Brit. /ˈbrɛstwəːk/, U.S. /ˈbrɛs(t)ˌwərk/
Forms: see breast n. and work n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: breast n., work n.
Etymology: < breast n. + work n.
1. An inward-looking task or labour, as opposed to one involving action in the external world. Obsolete. rare.
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1606 A. Chapman Christian Liberty sig. D2 Religion is not a brest-work, there is no such freedom from the law; it is not inough for charity to hold her hand on her bosome and feele how her hart worketh, but from her hart she must stretch it forth to help the distressed.
2.
a. Military. A (usually) rudimentary and temporary fieldwork, typically chest-high; a parapet (see parapet n. 1).
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > breastwork
foremost fight?1611
breast1624
breastwork1633
sangar1841
1633 W. Watts Swedish Intelligencer: 3rd & 4th Pts. iii. 42 All, so fenced with a Brest-worke behind which they stood to shoote downe, that nothing but their heads could be seene over it.
1756 B. Franklin Let. 25 Jan. in Papers (1963) VI. 366 We..had inclosed our Camp with a strong Breast work, Musquet proof.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. v. 160 The mud breast works had long been levelled with the earth.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 236 The Hythe Military Canal..protected by a breastwork on the land side.
1970 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee (1991) iii. 53 They retreated about two miles and began to dig breastworks.
2013 J. Beaumont Broken Nation iv. 326 The German defences around Ypres were strengthened with even more trenches and breastworks.
b. In extended and figurative use: a form of defence; a barrier.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence
hornc825
shieldc1200
warranta1272
bergha1325
armour1340
hedge1340
defencec1350
bucklerc1380
protectiona1382
safety1399
targea1400
suretyc1405
wall1412
pavise?a1439
fencec1440
safeguard?c1500
pale?a1525
waretack1542
muniment1546
shrouda1561
bulwark1577
countermure1581
ward1582
prevention1584
armourya1586
fortificationa1586
securitya1586
penthouse1589
palladium1600
guard1609
subtectacle1609
tutament1609
umbrella1609
bastion1615
screena1616
amulet1621
alexikakon1635
breastwork1643
security1643
protectionary1653
sepiment1660
back1680
shadower1691
aegis1760
inoculation1761
buoya1770
propugnaculum1773
panoply1789
armament1793
fascine1793
protective1827
beaver1838
face shield1842
vaccine1861
zariba1885
wolf-platform1906
firebreak1959
1643 G. Wither Campo-Musæ 5 My Breast-works are Good-Conscience, and the Lawes.
1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 301 Behind the outmost breastwork of Gentility.
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 103 This watery breastwork, a perpendicular wall of water carrying itself as true as if controlled by a mason's plumb-line.
2015 R. Ross in Z. Laidlaw & A. Lester Indigenous Communities & Settler Colonialism v. 89 The Kat River Settlement's role as a breastwork against Xhosa invasion was only too necessary.
3. In various technical uses.
a. A wall or embankment constructed to confine, or protect against, a body of water.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun]
wharf1038
causeyc1330
wall1330
bulwark1555
scut1561
weir1599
mound1613
staithe1613
breastwork1641
embankment1786
bund1813
sheath1850
fleet-dyke1858
sheathing1867
causeway1878
flood-bank1928
stopbank1950
1641 tr. Basile de Rouen Converted Capuchin 7 The breast-worke of squared free-stone which defends that Convent from the power of the seas batteries.
1791 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 256 The [Salmon] weir,..consists of a strong dam or breastwork, ten or twelve feet high, thrown across the river.
1914 Sessional Papers Canada (12th Parl., 3rd Sess.) XIII. No. 19. 92 Breakwaters and breastworks have been constructed on each side of the proposed canal.
2004 M. Crossman & J. Simm Man. Use of Timber in Coastal & River Engin. viii. 169 Most timber breastworks..are impermeable vertical walls, which will reflect any waves reaching the structure.
b. A low wall or barrier placed at the edge of a platform, balcony, roof, etc., to prevent people from falling. Cf. parapet n. 2a.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > wall > other types of wall
sidewall1381
brick wall1465
outwall1535
parpen1591
parapet1598
inwall?1611
breastwork1673
parapet wall1682
dwarf1718
screen1761
screen wall1770
hollow wall1823
alure1853
curtain wall1859
core-wall1899
blank wall1904
1673 J. Moore tr. F. Strada Making of Bridge over Scheld in tr. T. Moretti Treat. Artillery 77 The space betwixt each Ship was laid over with five long Beams, plank'd, and had Breast-works, and was as wide as the Bridges before nam'd were.
1747 Maryland Hist. Mag. 9 52 [The Vestrymen] Ordered, That a Breast-Work be erected in the Chapel of this Parish, before the Clerk's seat.
1882 Scotsman 22 Mar. 7/6 The breastwork of the platform was entirely concealed by large mirrors, draped in pink and white.
2006 Perspectives Vernacular Archit. 13 2/2 Special flourishes include the stylized patera and cabling in the breastwork of the gallery.
c. Nautical. A rail supported by (often ornamented) stanchions, mouldings, etc., running along the fore edge of the quarterdeck or poop deck, or enclosing the forecastle. Now historical.Quot. ?1760 at sense 4 implies earlier currency of this sense.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > rails or mouldings > across quarterdeck
barricado1675
barricade1769
breastwork1769
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. G6v Breastwork, a sort of balustrade or fence,..frequently decorated with sculpture.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 101 The breast-work..serves to make a separation from the main-deck.
2009 M. Lardas Ships of Amer. Revol. Navy (2011) 26 (diagram) Quarterdeck breastwork and watchkeeping bell.
d. Architecture. The brickwork or masonry forming the breast of a chimney.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > other parts of wall
quoin1532
ground-table1640
breast1655
patand1656
raddling1673
breast1674
offset1721
breastwork1779
base1790
breast beam1828
dry area1833
chimney-breast1842
wall-head1898
1779 R. Clavering Ess. Chimneys 15 Formerly it [sc. the Mantle Piece] was a piece of timber that lay across the jambs (and was then called the mantle-tree) and supported the breast-work.
1806 Massachusetts Spy 23 July On the breastwork over the fireplace was the distinct impression of a bloody hand.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §79 The fire-places to have each a strong iron chimney-bar (bar for supporting the breast-work, or front side of the flues).
2005 West Briton (Nexis) 31 Mar. 12 We were asked to make an exploratory hole around the side of the breastwork, which revealed a room behind the fireplace.
e. The part of a cotton gin machine bearing or comprising a series of bars or ribs between which rotating saw-edged discs pass, separating the lint from the seed; = breast n. 7d. Now historical.
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1793 E. Whitney Long Descr. Cotton Gin in T. Jefferson Papers (1997) XXVII. 241 This Machine may be described under five divisions, corresponding to its five principal parts: Viz: 1. The Frame, 2. The Cylinder; 3 The Breastwork; 4 The clearer, and 5 The Hopper.
1860 Sci. Amer. 14 Apr. 246/3 The great error in the plan projected by Mr. Whitney..may easily be found in his idea of forcing the staple through a stationary breastwork of iron at the point where the seeds are arrested and abruptly stripped.
2003 A. Lakwete Inventing Cotton Gin 51 The teeth pulled both fiber and seed along until they reached the slotted breastwork at the back of the hopper.
f. In a watermill powered by a breast-shot wheel: the curved channel or casing in which the wheel turns; = breasting n. 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > driven by water > parts of
awe1503
scoop1591
float1611
ladle1611
sole1675
float-board1719
ladle-board1744
paddle1758
shrouding1797
wrist1797
polroz1806
breastwork1833
flap1839
shrouding-plate1844
shroud-plate1844
staving1875
shroud-
1833 Derby Mercury 6 Nov. Wheels, shafts and millwright work throughout the mills, with stone breast work for the wheels, reservoir, sluices, weir and flood gates.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 849 A good example of the form of iron buckets employed in the breast wheel..is shown in fig. 1178: a. shrouding..e. breastwork.
1997 Australasian Hist. Archaeol. 15 72/2 The breastshot wheel is mounted inside the mill, half below ground level, in a stone breastwork built to fit the curve of the wheel.
g. Nautical. On an ironclad warship: an armoured superstructure enclosing one or more turrets, funnels, deck openings, etc. Also as a modifier, esp. in breastwork monitor: an ironclad warship fitted with such a superstructure. Now historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck superstructure > on a warship
breastwork1868
conning-tower1870
1868 Standard 10 Sept. 6/1 Around the Glatton's turret..will be erected a kind of armour-plated breastwork, over which the turret guns will fire.
1903 Engineering 20 Nov. 714/1 The openings to engine-room and stoke-holds, as well as the funnels, were also protected by the breastwork.
1972 Warship Internat. 9 272 Known also as a turret ship or breastwork monitor, Cerberus was the prototype of a class of ships in the RN which were loosely known as the ‘Monster Class’ because of their mythological names.
2015 D. Leggett Shaping Royal Navy v. 171 The Chief Constructor had extended the breastwork, which protected the base of the ship's turret, to the sides of the ship with a lighter iron superstructure.
4. colloquial (U.S. in later use). In plural. A woman's breasts.Originally in extended metaphors, with punning allusion to sense 3c (see quot. ?1760) or 2a (see quot. 1863).
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun]
titOE
breastOE
mammaOE
pysea1400
mamellec1450
dug1530
duckya1533
bag1579
pommela1586
mam1611
Milky Way1622
bubby?1660
udder1702
globea1727
fore-buttock1727
tetty1746
breastwork?1760
diddy1788
snows1803
sweets1817
titty1865
pappy1869
Charleys1874
bub1881
breastiec1900
ninny1909
pair1919
boobs1932
boobya1934
fun bag1938
maraca1940
knockers1941
can1946
mammaries1947
bazooms1955
jug1957
melon1957
bosoms1959
Bristols1961
chichi1961
nork1962
puppies1963
rack1968
knob1970
dingleberry1980
jubblies1991
?1760 Garland of Excellent New Songs 9 Tant-masted all, to see who's tallest, Breast-works, top-ga'ant-sails, and a fan—Messmate, cry'd I, more sail than ballast, Ah, still give me my Buxom Nan.
1863 J. Grant Letty Hyde's Lovers xviii. 201 In vain her round breastworks the count did assail, And though roughly repulsed yet he scorned to turn tail.
1952 W. B. Huie Revolt of Mamie Stover i. 9 She's got legs like Marlene Dietrich except more of 'em. And did you get a load o' them breastworks? Good God A'mighty!
a2004 L. Brown Miracle of Catfish (2007) xxvii. 131 He got a pretty good look at her breastworks as she made her way back to the table.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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