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单词 irish pendant
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Irish pendant
Irish pendant n. Nautical slang = Irish pennant n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > rope hanging loose
Irish pennant1829
Irish pendant1837
1837 F. Chamier Arethusa III. ii. 41 Every sail was properly set—not a yarn hung like an Irish pendant from any of the ropes.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxii. 221 There was no rust, no dirt, no rigging hanging slack, no fag ends of ropes and ‘Irish pendants’ aloft.
1906 F. T. Bullen Frank Brown iv. 67 Beyond occasionally repairing the bending of a sail or securing some of the ‘Irish pendants’..aloft, there was little to do.
1985 T. Jones Outward Leg xxv. 218 Her sides was old and her sails were rotten... Irish pendants in her rigging.
extracted from Irishadj.adv.n.
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