| 单词 | gun-tackle block |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgun-tackle block gun-tackle n. (a) Nautical in full, gun-tackle-purchase, ‘a tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks’ (Smyth); also attributive gun-tackle block; (b) an arrangement of blocks and ropes for moving guns. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > consisting of two single blocks gun-tackle1795 1795 R. Dodd Rep. Hartlepool 16 Merely knowing the management of a gun-tackle. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Gun-tackle, the blocks and pulleys of a gun-carriage affixed to the side of a ship, by which it is run in and out of the port-hole. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 108 ‘A gun tackle’ increases the effect of the power threefold. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 55 Gun tackle purchase. Two double blocks, each fitted with a hook. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xiv. 217 The decks were washed down..and a gun-tackle purchase rigged, before the boat arrived. 1898 P. H. Colomb Mem. Sir A. C. Key 350 That the strops of the gun-tackle blocks should henceforth be of wire instead of hemp. < as lemmas |
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