请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 quartersling
释义

> as lemmas

quarter-sling
quarter-sling n. Nautical (now historical) one of the supports attached to a yard on either side of its centre.
ΚΠ
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Quarter-Slings, are supports attached to a yard or other spar at one or both sides of (but not in) its centre.
1955 C. W. T. Layton Dict. Naut. Words & Terms 283 Quarter Slings, standing lifts of a yard, made of chain or rope, used in 16th century.
extracted from quartern.
quarter-sling
d. Military. With the name of a piece of ordnance: designating a small size of the item specified, as quarter cannon, quarter-culverin, quarter-slang, quarter-sling, etc. (cf. half adj. 8). Now chiefly historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > small or short pieces
murderer1495
curtala1509
minion1513
passe-volant1513
pikmoyane1513
saker1521
base1539
robinet1547
quarter cannon?a1549
bersec1550
murdresarc1550
yetling1558
battardc1565
demi-cannon1577
calabass1578
double curtal1582
demi-culverin1587
rabinet1596
murdering piece1601
drake1627
putter1646
cartow1650
putterlingc1650
minion drakea1661
cut1672
under-saker1678
murther1688
carronade1779
carthoun1849
?a1549 Inventory Henry VIII (1998) I. 102/2 Ordinaunce Artillery Munycyons... Quarter slynges.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 251 Small artaillȝie, that is to say..quarter fallcouns, slingis [etc.].
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Quarto cannone A quarter Cannon, which is but weakely fortifide or mettalled.
1639 R. Ward Animadversions of Warre i. iv. xlv. 111 The Pellican or Bastard quarter-Culverin..the weight of her shot is 6.l...the weight of the Peece is 2550.l.
1684 J. P. von Valcaren Relation Siege Vienna 111 Quarter Cannon, each 12 pound 306.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Pellican The Name of an ancient Piece of Ordinance, equal to a Quarter-Culverin, and carrying a Ball of six Pounds.
1873 Amer. Cycl. 786/2 [Forty-eight, twenty-four, twelve, and six-pounders], called cannons, half cannons, quarter cannons, and falcons.
1997 W. C. Kirwin Powers Matchless ii. 50 At the fortress of Ancona there were examples of full cannon,..quarter cannon, culverin..and half culverin.
extracted from quartern.
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 9:20:45