单词 | grillage |
释义 | grillagen. 1. Engineering. A heavy framework of cross-timbering, sometimes resting upon the heads of piles, serving as a foundation for building on watery or treacherous soil. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > framework frame1558 truss1654 cage-work1756 lathing1756 grillage1776 trestle1796 trestlework1853 hog frame1875 truss-work1884 steel framework1906 space frame1912 diagrid1943 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 14 A Grillage of Oak, strong and well pinned. 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Grillage, a term applied to the sleepers or cross beams supporting a platform, upon which some erections are carried up, as piers in the case of marshes or watery soils, whereby an equal bearing is given to the foundation. 1862 Daily Tel. 6 May By driving piles, on which a double grillage of timbers was laid, a foundation sufficiently firm was obtained. 1868 Proc. Instit. Civil Engineers 27 276 The grillage and foundation distribute this weight. 2. Lace-making. (See quot. 1882.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > pattern > barred or grated space grillage1882 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 230/2 Grillé, Grillage, or Gaze au Fuseau, are terms especially applied to ornaments that have open spaces barred or grated across them. 3. An arrangement resembling a grill. ΚΠ 1890 Harper's Mag. June 142/1 On the bottom shelf lay a grillage of bar soap. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1776 |
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