| 释义 |
reeper, reaper Anglo-Indian.|ˈriːpə(r)|
[ad. Mahratti rīp (Yule).]
(See quots.)
1734in J. H. Wheeler Madras in Olden Time (1862) III. 148 Paid the Banksall Merchants for the house poles, country reapers, &c. necessary for house building. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Reepers, laths, or longitudinal sections of the palmyra palm, used for building purposes in the East; the trunk of the tree is split into 8 for reepers, and these are dressed with an adze. 1886Yule & Burnell Anglo-Ind. Gloss., Reaper. The small laths, laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles, are so called in Anglo-Indian house-building. |