| 单词 | by rack of eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby rack of eye 6. British & U.S. regional by rack of eye and variants: without accurate measurement, by eye. ΚΠ a1796 S. Pegge Two Coll. Derbicisms (1896) 117 To judge of the value of a thing by ‘the rack o' th' eye’, by view or sight, without weighing or measuring. 1853 E. Ridings Village Muse 6 Aw know by th' rack o' th' ee. 1865 W. S. Banks List Provinc. Words Wakefield 55 Ah could tell by t'rack o' my ee t'line wor'n't straight. 1913 A. Hardy Life & Adventures in Land of Mud 17 A skipper who knew next to nothing of navigation, but steered his craft by ‘the rack of the eye’. 1963 M. V. Brewington Chesapeake Bay Canoes 14 In the more poorly-built canoes of these regions, the eye alone is used in attaining the form; this is known colloquially as the ‘winchum-squinchum’ method, or ‘built by rack of eye’. 1987 J. Barth Tidewater Tales (1988) 31 Fritz established himself in time as a regionally famous builder of Chesapeake Bay workboats..and, toward the end of his career, small wooden cruising sailboats built ‘by rack of eye’, without full-scale laid-out plans. < as lemmas |
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