单词 | false stem |
释义 | > as lemmasfalse stem b. Shipbuilding. Of things temporarily attached to the real or true part to assist or protect it, as in false keel, false keelson, false post, false rail, false stay, false stem, false stern, false stern-post. Also in false deck, a grating or the like supported above the main deck by the ‘close fights’. ΚΠ 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 14 A grating, netting or false decke for your close fights. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xi. 53 Another keele vnder the first..wee call a false Keele. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xi. 53 Fix another stem before it [sc. the stem], and that is called a false stem. 1709 London Gaz. No. 4521/2 Having our..Back-stays cut to pieces; as also our Main and False~stay. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Architecture The false post..serves to augment the breadth of the stern-post. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 117 False keel. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 117 False rail, a rail fayed down upon the upper side of the main, or upper rail of the head. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. False kelson or Kelson Rider. false stem a. The curved upright timber or piece of metal at the bow of a vessel, into which the planks of the bow are scarfed; = the earlier forestam n. false stem: see quot. 16272. main stem: the ‘stem’ proper as distinguished from the ‘false stem’. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > stem-post or -piece stem1538 stem-post1841 stem-piecec1860 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Rostrum,..also the stemme of a ship or boote. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. Bv Christian Merchants that with Russian stems Plow vp huge furrowes in the Caspian Sea. Shall vaile to vs. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. lvi. 190 Piseus the Tyrrhene..armed the stemme and beake~head of the ship with sharpe tines and pikes of brasse. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 2 At the one end is skarfed into it, the Stem, which is a great timber wrought compassing. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 53 If her stem be too flat..fix another stem before it, and that is called a false stem, which will make her rid more way and beare a better saile. 1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 54 As far as Nereus doth, to Ashur's Land Plow out a passage with his stemm's and oars. 1668 London Gaz. No. 236/1 But the Flyboat breaking her Stemm, sunk..suddenly. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 317 The defect was in the stem itself. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 377/2 The height and rake of the stem and sternpost. 1830 P. Hedderwick Treat. Marine Archit. 246 From the foremost perpendicular, set off all the rakes of the stem inside and out. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vi. 179 He rode back to the ship,..and wondered at her..carven stem and stern. 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding iii. 48 The stem of an iron ship..is usually a prolongation of the keel. 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. vii. 98 The stems of all ships complete, as it were, the framing at the fore part of the vessel. < as lemmas |
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