| 单词 | iron-strap |
| 释义 | > as lemmasiron-strap iron-strap n. U.S. Whaling (now rare) a short piece of rope connecting a line to a harpoon; = foreganger n. 2a; cf. sense 13. ΚΠ 1883 J. T. Brown Whale Fishery & its Appliances 45 Two holes at forward end of shaft and one hole at the butt for making fast the iron-strap. 1968 B. Venables Baleia vi. 102 This iron-strap is a length of rope, not much longer than the shaft and of the same rope as the whaleline. 1984 T. G. Lytle Harpoons & Other Whalecraft ii. 20 Ten to twenty fathoms of line were coiled at the bow and the end was tied to the iron strap as previously described. < as lemmas |
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