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Samson's post
Also 9 Samson-, Sampson-post.
[Prob. named in allusion to Judges xvi. 29.]
†1. A kind of mousetrap (see quot. 1609). Obs.
1577Harrison England iii. vi. 107 b/2 [Halifax gibbet.] Which being drawne vp to the top of the frame is there fastned with a woodden pinne, (the one ende set on a peece of woode,..& the other ende being let into the blocke, holding the Axe, with a notche made into the same after the maner of a Sampsons post). 1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. vii. (1634) 120 note, There is none [i.e. no mousetrap] better than a Samsons Post, which is a flat Coouer or Roofe supported by a triangular Pillar or Prop, whose three sides doe so hold one by another, through the Weight of the Roofe, that the loosing of one is the loosing of all, and so the Prop failing, the Roofe falleth. 1828Craven Gloss., Sampson's-posts, a mouse-trap. [Described.]
fig.1593G. Harvey New Let. Notable Contents Wks. (Grosart) I. 262 Croatia may learne to be prouident in Triumph; which hath often fealt the ioyfulnesse of a Sampsons post.
2. a. Naut. A strong pillar or stanchion passing through the hold of a merchant-ship, or between the decks of a man-of-war; also, in a whaling vessel, a strong post, firmly fixed in the deck, to which the fluke-rope may be fastened. b. Oil-mining. (See quot. 1881.)
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Samsons-post, a sort of pillar erected in a ship's hold, between the lower deck and the kelson, under the edge of a hatchway, and furnished with..notches that serve as steps. 1860Illustr. Lond. News 29 Sept. 285/3 The schooner was showing a white light on the sampson-post. 1865Harper's Mag. Apr. 573/2 The walking-beam is a heavy horizontal piece of timber, supported in the centre by a Samson-post. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Samson-post. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Sampson-post, an upright post which supports the walking-beam, communicating motion from the engine to a deep-boring apparatus. 1960C. Gatlin Petrol. Engin. iv. 45/1 The walking beam is supported by the sampson post, and imparts the reciprocating motion to the drilling line. |