| 单词 | heeling tank |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheeling tank C1. attributive with the sense ‘of, relating to, or affecting the heeling of a vessel’; as heeling angle, heeling curve, heeling position, heeling pump, heeling tank, etc. ΚΠ 1752 A. Cobin Short & Plain Princ. Linear Perspective xii. 56 A Ship..in a heeling Position by the Effects of the Wind or Water. 1870 F. J. O. Evans Elem. Man. Deviations Compass in Iron Ships x. 93 This generally throws the point of intersection of the heeling curves to the north of east and to the north of west. 1882 W. H. White Lect. Turning Powers .Ships 29 The effect on the heeling would be felt especially in small vessels, where the arm of the heeling couple is small. 1949 Arctic May 75/2 As with the U.S. ice-breakers the Canadian vessel will be fitted with heeling tanks. 1992 Marine Engineers Rev. Nov. 14/1 The traffic control centre on the main deck is linked to a ballast and heeling pump. 2010 R. Crawford & J. Crawford Black Feathers vi. 36 I distributed some of the inside weight around to keep the heeling angle of the boat reasonably comfortable. < as lemmas |
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