| 单词 | cross-pole |
| 释义 | > as lemmascross-pole (i) gen. Having a transverse direction; transverse; going across something; as cross-arm, cross-band, cross-brace, cross-bracing, cross-gate, cross-pole, cross-rod, cross-strap; crossbar n., cross-beam n., cross-piece n., cross-sail n., etc. Π 1760 Patrington Haven Act 13 Pass through the said turnpikes or cross gates. 1827 J. Farey Treat. Steam Engine 678 On the upper end of the piston rod..a horizontal cross-rod..is fixed. 1829 R. Southey Pilgrim to Compostella iii, in All for Love 171 Perch'd on a cross-pole hoisted high. 1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) I. 317 A variety of cross-braces above the tie-beams. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. ii. 38 Set as stays and cross-bands. 1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 409 The cross-straps pinch the little toe of my wife's foot. 1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 20 Strengthening the old ships with cross-timbers. 1884 F. F. Miller Harriet Martineau 148 She set up a cross-pole fence around her estate. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Cross-arm. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cross bracing. 1925 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 4 524 Individual wires mounted on separate insulators attached to cross-arms on poles. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 204/1 Counter-bracing, the provision of two diagonal tie-rods in the panels of a frame girder or other structure. Also called cross-bracing. 1964 Listener 11 June 950/1 Each pier of each ring is led back to the others by brick cross-bracing, making up as it were the spokes of a set of colossal wheels. < as lemmas |
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