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单词 hammock-cloth
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hammock-clothn.

Etymology: The relation of sense 1 to hammock n. is not apparent.
1. A cloth for the back of a horse. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle-cloth
paniot1310
saumbuc1330
panel1336
saddle house1431
mantletc1440
horse-cloth1530
saddlecloth?1530
saddle rug1679
hammock-cloth1685
hammock1690
shabracque1809
saddle blanket1817
manta1828
saddle mat1856
numnah1859
numdah1879
1685 London Gaz. No. 2060/4 A Hammock Cloth for a Coach Horse, of a Dark-hair-color'd Cloth Imbroider'd with Red and White.
1687 London Gaz. No. 2270/4 2 Hammock Cloaths of green Flowred Velvet on a white Ground, both fringed with Scarlet and White.
2. = hammer-cloth n. (? By confusion.)
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1830 E. Eden Let. in Mrs. Swinton Lady de Ros (1893) 41 I thought a hammock-cloth would be better under those circumstances than a dicky.
3. Nautical. A cloth used for covering the hammocks to protect them from wet when stowed in the nettings on the top of the bulwarks.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > devices to protect ship from weather > covering of canvas or tarpaulin > covering for hammocks
netting-sail1627
hammock-cloth1804
top-cloth1815
waist-cloth1815
1804 Ld. Nelson Let. 28 July in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 120 The want of these hammock-cloths will be severely felt, and there is none on board to cover the men's bedding.
1842 J. F. Cooper Jack o' Lantern I. 148 The hammocks were not stowed, and the hammock-cloths had that empty and undressed look so common to a man-of-war in the night.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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