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单词 head netting
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head netting
head netting n. (a) Nautical netting attached to the head of a ship, usually in order to prevent people from slipping overboard (obsolete); (b) netting worn over or placed around the head for protection against mosquitoes and other insects (cf. head net n.).
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 170 Head-netting is fastened to the horses in the head and upper rails, to save the men from slipping overboard.
1807 P. B. V. Broke in J. G. Brighton Admiral Sir P. B. V. Broke (1866) i. 64 The spray of the sea froze in icicles wherever it rested, particularly about the chains and head nettings.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 375 Head-netting, an ornamental netting used in merchant ships instead of the fayed planking to the head-rails.
1904 W. H. Workman & F. B. Workman Through Town & Jungle p. xii The blanket..makes an effective protection against mosquitoes... If, like us, he prefers to use a light head netting for this purpose, [etc.].
2003 Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) (Nexis) 22 June b1 Consider..whether there is an alternative way to deter the insects, such as clothing or head netting.
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