单词 | hammock-cloth |
释义 | hammock-clothn.ΘΚΠ 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.) Π 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1685 |
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