单词 | port-lid |
释义 | > as lemmasport-lid port-lid n. Nautical (now historical) a shutter used to close a gun port or porthole. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in side of vessel > cover of seaboardc1460 port1627 port-lid1769 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Fire-ship Against every port is placed an iron chamber, which, at the time of firing the ship, blows out the port-lid, and opens a passage for the flame. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 71 What are the port-lids, or ports for? For closing the ports. 1998 P. O'Brian Hundred Days (1999) ii. 38 The exactness of the coiled muzzle-lashing, made fast to the eye-bolt above the port-lid,..told a knowing eye a great deal about the gun-crew. < as lemmas |
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