单词 | dunnage |
释义 | dunnagen. Originally Nautical. 1. Originally: light, loose material, such as brushwood, small wooden blocks, mats, etc., stowed among and beneath the cargo of a vessel in order to keep it dry, stable, and secure during a voyage; lighter, less valuable items of cargo used for the same purpose. Now usually: material used to secure, stabilize, and protect cargo transported in containers. Cf. dunnage bag n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo > loose wood wedging cargo dunnage1497 dunnage bag1858 fardage- 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 251 For xxxvj shegge Shevys layed alow in John Millers crayer for donage. 1623 R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land 75 Mats and dynnage vnder the Salt, and Salt Shouels. 1669 H. Brayne Inventorie Shipp Carolina 17 Aug. in L. Cheves Shaftesbury Papers (2000) 144 7600 of Wood for Deunidge. 1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 101 To take Care of the requisite Dunnage and Bavins at the Bottom. 1778 N. Smith Addr. Proprietors East India Stock 91 In order the better to guard against damage, the dunnage would often be encreased. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 98 We covered the bottom of the hold..with dried brush, for dunnage. 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash I. 198 He had stowed his dunnage, many hundred bundles of light flexible canes from Sumatra and Malacca. 1921 R. S. MacElwee & T. R. Taylor Wharf Managem. x. 180 In stowing almost any kind of cargo, dunnage and goods for broken stowage are important considerations. 1963 Quick Frozen Foods Mar. 70/3 If cold air is used as the freezing medium, the product shall be arranged by staggering the individual items or by employing dunnage..to permit satisfactory circulation of cold air around the products. 2017 Material Handling & Logistics (Nexis) 9 Nov. This flexible foam dunnage is ergonomically designed so it is soft to the touch and offers part protection. 2. Originally Navy slang. The clothing and other personal belongings carried by a sailor, soldier, or woodsman; (more generally) baggage or equipment with which a person travels; kit, ‘stuff’. Now rare.The sense is typically found in military slang or as part of the informal jargon associated with another occupation or activity. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > equipment for a journey > baggage trousseauc1230 harnessc1330 fardel1388 flittinga1400 stuff?a1400 baggagec1430 trussellc1440 carriagec1450 trussagec1500 traffic1538 trussery1548 traffe1566 sumpture1567 truss1587 needment1590 luggage1596 sumptery1620 piece1809 traps1813 roll-up1831 dunnage1834 kit1834 way baggage1836 swag1853 drum1861 swag bag1892 1834 Knickerbocker Mag. 3 81 The crew were disposed in various groups about the deck..; some with their clothes-bags beside them, turning it to account in overhauling their dunnage. ?c1834 J. Wetherell Adventures (1953) i. 33 Obrian..in great triumph dragged me and my dunnage aft under the Centry's charge. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 244/2 If they can meet with..the young ladies, they ‘put it on them for dunnage’ (beg a stock of general clothing). 1885 C. A. Neidé Cruise of Aurora 105 Some of the dunnage and the tent would need to be dried before being packed. 1932 J. Dos Passos 1919 9 Go get your dunnage and be back here in an hour. 2011 M. Cohn Prize of War (e-book, accessed 17 Nov. 2017) 31 Get the cutter ready to take them to the sloop while Mr. Kent gets his dunnage together and takes care of the paper work with the purser. Compounds attributive, designating wood, boards, etc., used as dunnage (in sense 1), in e.g. dunnage board, dunnage wood. See also dunnage bag n. 1. ΚΠ 1796 W. Mitchell New & Compl. Syst. Bk.-keeping 97 Dunnage boards &c. for the Adriana's cargo. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 116 Dunnage battens, pieces of oak or fir, about two inches square, nailed athwart the flat of the orlop, to prevent wet from damaging the cables, and to admit air. 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 73 Dunnage wood 26d. per 100 pieces. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dunnage gratings, express gratings placed on a steamer's deck to place cargo upon, serving as dunnage. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 4/2 They store there the dunnage mats used for the cargo. 1922 Amer. Lumberman 15 Apr. 78/2 A shipment of 250,000 feet going to New York by water along with 750,000 feet of cull red heart dunnage boards. 2008 K. Metge & W. Burgermeister in M. M. Mota & P. Vieira Pine Wilt Dis. 175 Package- and dunnage wood are of importance as transport material for the worldwide spread of economically important invasive species. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dunnagev. Originally Nautical. 1. a. transitive. To fit (a ship, container, etc.) with dunnage in order to secure or protect the cargo. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1790 T. Morton Let. 5 Mar. in J. Fiott Addr. to Proprietors of East-India Stock (1791) App. 11 Those parts of the lower deck..must be dunnaged with billet-wood. 1794 J. H. Moore New Pract. Navigator (ed. 10) 291 Q. If you are taking in bales, how would you dunnage, and which part of the ship most? A. I would dunnage six inches and mostly about the well, main hatchway, the wake of the chains and floor timbers. 1831 Sc. Jurist 3 67/2 The damage in question originated entirely from the ship not having been sufficiently dunnaged. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 63 Dunnage as high as the kelson..to prevent water getting to the casks. 1865 J. Lees Laws Brit. Shipping (ed. 9) 190 The vessel must also be properly dunnaged in the bottom and at the sides of the hold, in order to raise up the loading. 1938 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 25 Mar. 453 Dunnaging them [sc. condensing surfaces in cargo spaces] thoroughly and protecting cargo. 1994 Commandant's Bull. May 7/1 This container was not dunnaged correctly. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) A vessel dunnages below the dry cargo to keep it from bilge-water. 2. transitive. To secure or protect (cargo) with dunnage. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > load or unload cargo > load a ship or a cargo > stow and secure with dunnage dunnage1807 1807 Maryland Gaz. 2 July The powder had not been properly dunnaged. 1879 T. Hunter Port Charges & Requirem. on Vessels i. 275 Teak wood, being heavy, is much used in the East for dunnaging light cargoes. 1963 Code Federal Regulations: 46 Pts. 146–9: Codification Docs. Gen. Applicability (Office of Federal Register, U.S.) 758 Military explosives shall be so stowed and dunnaged as to prevent damage to the cargo or the vessel from shifting cargo caused by forces incident to the voyage of the vessel. 2010 Jrnl. Commerce Online (Nexis) 8 Jan. Packages of hazardous materials must be braced and dunnaged with wooden blocks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1497v.1790 |
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