| 单词 | quarter cloth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter cloth quarter cloth n. (a) Nautical (usually in plural) a long piece of canvas going from the upper part of a ship's gallery to the gangway (now historical); (b) = quarter blanket n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > other cloths poitrel1490 bard1520 fore-cloth1526 bardingc1540 barb1566 pectoral1602 water-deck1721 rug1790 barbing1799 sweaters1828 quarter blanket1872 quarter cloth1894 peto1957 sweat rug1971 1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 19 July in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 162 Our Capn Showed him great Respeckt..with Jack Ainshent & pennant Flying; quarter Cloath, etc, verey grand. 1894 Field 9 June 828/3 The names of his two horses embroidered on the quarter cloths. 1937 Times 27 Jan. 17/3 The Hon. Ronald Strutt has given the Duke of Norfolk a paddock quarter cloth and stirrup leathers. 2005 I. Dear & P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea (ed. 2) 449/2 Quarter-cloths,..normally painted red,..were fixed on the outboard side of the nettings... Their purpose was to protect the hammocks, stowed by day in the nettings, from any seas breaking aboard. < as lemmas |
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