| 单词 | layingtop |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaying-top laying-top n. a grooved conical piece of wood placed between the strands in ‘laying’ a rope, a top n.1 and adj. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1073 In laying cables, torsion must be given both behind and before the laying top. laying-top 3. Rope-making. (Also laying-top.) See quots. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > rope-making equipment > [noun] > other rope-making equipment warping-tree1404 throw-crook1557 warping-stock1588 spun-yarn winch1627 winch1640 woolder1750 register1793 top minor1793 laying-top1794 warping-block1794 whirl1794 reel1797 warping-post1797 whirl-hook1797 strand-hook1825 spreader1830 register plate1832 wimble1863 snugger1875 strop1875 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 58 Tops, to lay ropes,..are conical pieces of wood, with three or four grooves..from the butt to the end, for the strands to lie in, and form a triangle. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 485/1 The top comes away from the swivel..and the line begins to lay. 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 154/2 A piece of wood called a top, in the form of a truncated cone, being placed between the strands, and kept during the operation gently forced into the angle formed by the strands, where they are united by the closing or twisting of the rope. 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. (at cited word) The top is forced as far as possible toward the sledge-hook, so as to allow the twist to commence at that end, the top giving way as the twist crowds it forward to the head end of the yarns. < as lemmas |
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