| 单词 | french fake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFrench fake French fake n. [ < French adj. + fake n.1] = Flemish fake n. at Flemish adj. Compounds; also figurative. ΚΠ 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 116 If a rope be laid in this manner, it is termed a French Fake, which method is adopted, when the rope has to let go suddenly, in order to allow it to run freely, without the parts getting foul of each other. 1887 Littell's Living Age 8 Jan. 69/2 We have, for example, ‘Spanish windlass’, as we have ‘French fake’, ‘French sennit’, etc. 1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 69/2 French fake, the fashion of coiling a rope by taking it backwards and forwards in parallel bands, so that it may run easily. 2001 B. Gifford Out of Past (rev. ed.) 77 This is a French-fake of a story, like a rope coiled with each turn wound outside of the other, beginning in the middle. < as lemmas |
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