单词 | luff hook |
释义 | > as lemmasluff hook ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes securing sail to yard > hook for leech-hook1485 luff hook1485 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 73 Lofe hokes. 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 158 Loff hokes. 1532 Inv. Great Barke 6 Oct. (Jal) Item, a snatche polly; a Luffhooke. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 24 The Loofe hooke is a tackle with two hookes, one to hitch into a chingle of the maine, or fore saile,..and the other to strap spliced to the chestres to bouse or pull downe the saile to succour the tackes in a stiffe gale of wind. < as lemmas |
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