单词 | rave-hook |
释义 | rave-hookn. Nautical. Now rare. A tool used for removing oakum from or enlarging the seams in the planking of a ship's deck and sides in preparation for caulking. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > caulking seams > tools chinsing-iron1508 caulker1543 reef hook1617 caulking-iron1627 caulking-mallet1627 horse-iron1750 rave-hook1780 meaking iron1853 sharp-iron1887 1780 Boyer's Dictionnaire Royal (rev. ed.) I. 73/2 Bec-de-Corbin, a rave-hook or ripping iron or an instrument with which the caulkers take the oakum out of the seams. 1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 124 Rave-hook, a hooked tool used by square-makers, to haul out the small chips when enlarging the butts for receiving a sufficient quantity of oakum. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Rave-hook, an iron instrument used by caulkers to get the oakum thoroughly out of a vessel's seams, when a rasing-iron would not penetrate deep enough. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 562 Rave-hook, in ship carpentry, a hooked iron tool used when enlarging the butts for receiving a sufficient quantity of oakum. 1873 T. D. Wilson Outl. Ship Building 394 Rave-Hook, a hooked-iron tool used in cutting butts of planking to afford sufficient opening to caulk them. 1907 in J. Randier Men & Ships around Cape Horn (1969) iii. 188 Carpenter's stores:..8 caulking irons; 1 rave-hook; 2 bradawls; 1 wire-cutter; 1 hatchet; 1 small axe [etc.]. 1945 Irish Maritime Surv. 328 Raising iron, a chisel for removing old caulking. In seaman's parlance, it is called a rave-hook. 1972 Industr. Archaeol. 9 407 In this country in recent times it is known as the ‘Hoe’ or ‘Rake’, but in the USA it is still called the ‘Rave Hook’, another example of an old word which is obsolete here, but surviving on the other side of the Atlantic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1780 |
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