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单词 ground-tackle
释义

ground-tacklen.

Etymology: Compare Dutch grondtakel, German grund-tackelage.
A general name for all ropes, cables, anchors, or other tackle made use of in anchoring, mooring, or kedging a vessel.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun]
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a1558 R. Best in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 322 The sayd ship being beaten from her ground tackles, was driuen vpon the Rockes.
1600 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 848 To put into the Streights, wee durst not for lacke of ground-tackle.
a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 375/2 Never Ships..were better fitted with Ground Tackle.
1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xvii. 115 With such ships, by the help of good ground-tackle, they navigate the Caspian.
1859 J. S. Mansfield in Mercantile Marine Mag. (1860) 7 15 The ground tackle seems..to have been free from objection.

Derivatives

ground-tackling n. (in same sense).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun]
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1600 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 843 Wee haue no more sailes then mastes, no victuals, no ground-tackling, no cordage.
1710 London Gaz. No. 4703/4 Cordage and Ground-Tackling very good.
1798 E. Berry in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1845) III. 66 The dismasted Prize..is badly off for ground tackling.
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