| 单词 | knife-rest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasknife-rest knife-rest n. (a) a small pillow of metal or glass on which to rest a carving-knife or -fork at table; also, a support to keep a knife in position while it is being ground; (b) Military slang a barrier or obstruction composed of barbed wire and timber. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun] > other barriers treble1569 firewall1578 herisson1704 boat work1782 tambour1834 gabionage1849 knife-rest1858 skerm1861 stockade tambour1892 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > rests rest1680 slide-rest1839 table-tree1843 hand rest1849 knife-rest1858 tool-rest1864 turning-rest1889 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Knife-rest. 1919 Athenæum 15 Aug. 759/1 Knife-rests, chevaux de frise. 1921 F. W. Bewsher Hist. 51st Div. vii. 114 Stooks of cut strands of wire and over-turned knife-rests lay everywhere. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 138 Kniferest, the name at the Front for a portable X-shaped wire-entanglement framework, resembling a knife-rest, used for stopping gaps in wire-entanglements in No Man's Land. 1927 A. Keith-Falconer Oxfordshire Hussars 215 The two R.E. men with the torpedo at once blew the wire up (it was only one knife-rest thick) and the party crossed the trench. 1929 C. Edmonds Subaltern's War 54 A framework of stakes and barbed wire of the kind which solders call a ‘knife-rest’. 1958 P. Kemp No Colours or Crest iv. 54 The entrance to the courtyard was blocked by a heavy ‘knife-rest’ barbed wire entanglement. 1964 A. Farrar-Hockley Somme ii. 83 Gaps had been filled with wired knife-rests and concertina rolls pegged down with iron pickets. < as lemmas |
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