单词 | ninepin block |
释义 | > as lemmasninepin block ninepin block n. Nautical (now historical) a block shaped like a ninepin. ΚΠ 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 156 Nine-pin-blocks, the shells..resemble the shape of a nine-pin... They are used to lead the running ropes in a horizontal direction. 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 116 Ninepin Block, a block in the form of a ninepin, used for a fair leader in the rail. 1943 Mariner's Mirror 29 181 The following ropes were belayed at the bitts.., the larger ones to the bitt heads or arms, and the smaller to belaying pins in the bitt rails, all first passing through either a sheave in the bitts or a ninepin block. < as lemmas |
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