单词 | pin-rack |
释义 | pin-rackn. Nautical. A rack or frame on the deck of a ship in which belaying pins are fixed to secure running rigging. Cf. pin-rail n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > pin for coiling of running ropes > hoop or rack for use with spider-hoop1846 spider1860 pin-rack1869 pin-rail1870 1869 R. W. Meade Treat. Naval Archit. & Ship-building (ed. 2) 246 To find and fit all necessary pin-racks, belaying bitts [sic], cleats and pins to fore and mainmasts. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Pin-rack,..a frame placed on the deck of a vessel, and containing sheaves around which ropes may be worked, and belaying-pins around which they may be secured. 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 27 Belaying pins are fitted through a piece of wood, which is secured down in the top, called pin racks. 1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos ii. 12 Ribs stuck fast in the ways, grape-cluster over pin-rack. 1986 A. Kent Colours Aloft! vi. 99 Bolitho gripped a belaying pin rack. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1869 |
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