单词 | quarter timber |
释义 | > as lemmasquarter timber quarter timber n. †(a) quartered timber (obsolete); (b) Nautical (in plural) the timbers used in framing the quarters of a vessel (now rare); †(c) timber in the form of quarters (sense 19) (obsolete). ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 488 The quarter timber, or that which runneth with foure grains, is simply the best. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 243 Quarter-timbers, the framing timbers in a vessel's quarter. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1844/1 Quarter-timber,..scantling from 2 to 6 inches deep. 1955 Mariner's Mirror 41 310 Then comes the foot hooks (footocks), the quarter timbers and the bow timbers. < as lemmas |
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