英语词汇“flemish coil”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. originally. A length of cable, rope, etc., when ‘coiled’ or gathered up into a number of concentric rings, either fake over fake, or in a flat disk with the fakes within each other, the latter being termed a Flemish coil; hence, the quantity of cable, etc., usually wound up. Originally a nautical term.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > rope or cord > length(s) of cable

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1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. 30 A Bight is to hold by any part of a coile, that is, the vpmost fake.

1662 S. Pepys Diary 22 Aug. (1970) III. 173 One from a trap-doore above let fall unawares a coyle of cable.

1677 London Gaz. No. 1174/1 Remaining in the Consuls hands 18 Quoyles of Cordage and a Hauser.

1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) A Quoyle is a rope laid up round, one Fake over another. Sometimes it is taken for a whole Rope quoyl'd; so that if half the Rope be cut away, they say, there is but half a Quoyle of that Rope.

1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Quoil The middle of such a ring or quoile, is a good place to lay shot in.

1794 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) I. 432 I have to request from the Victory two coils of four-inch or four-and-a-half rope.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 2 Hard coils of cordage, swarthy fishing-nets.

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 589/1 When laid up in a flat helix, without riders, beginning in the middle, and ‘with the sun’ it is said to be a Flemish coil.

单词	flemish coil
释义	> as lemmas Flemish coil 1. originally. A length of cable, rope, etc., when ‘coiled’ or gathered up into a number of concentric rings, either fake over fake, or in a flat disk with the fakes within each other, the latter being termed a Flemish coil; hence, the quantity of cable, etc., usually wound up. Originally a nautical term. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > rope or cord > length(s) of cable coil1627 cabling1927 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. 30 A Bight is to hold by any part of a coile, that is, the vpmost fake. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 22 Aug. (1970) III. 173 One from a trap-doore above let fall unawares a coyle of cable. 1677 London Gaz. No. 1174/1 Remaining in the Consuls hands 18 Quoyles of Cordage and a Hauser. 1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) A Quoyle is a rope laid up round, one Fake over another. Sometimes it is taken for a whole Rope quoyl'd; so that if half the Rope be cut away, they say, there is but half a Quoyle of that Rope. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Quoil The middle of such a ring or quoile, is a good place to lay shot in. 1794 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) I. 432 I have to request from the Victory two coils of four-inch or four-and-a-half rope. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 2 Hard coils of cordage, swarthy fishing-nets. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 589/1 When laid up in a flat helix, without riders, beginning in the middle, and ‘with the sun’ it is said to be a Flemish coil. extracted from coiln.³ Flemish coil Flemish coil n. (see coil n.³ 1). ΚΠ 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 106 This is called a Flemish coil. extracted from Flemishadj. < as lemmas
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