| 单词 | relieving tackle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrelieving tackle relieving tackle n. Nautical (now chiefly historical) tackle, or a tackle, used to relieve the strain on a vessel or any part of it; spec. (a) tackles used on either side of a ship to prevent it overturning when being careened; (b) purchases rigged on either side of a vessel's tiller to ease the strain, esp. in heavy seas. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > other tackles polancre1356 Breton tackle1495 burton1704 relieving tackle1717 Spanish burton1829 watch-tackle1840 pendant tackle1852 top-burtonc1860 cant-fall1867 coal-whipper1881 1717 W. Sutherland Britain's Glory: Ship-building Unvail'd 107 It sometimes happens, That..she [sc. the ship] oversets, making almost an intire Revolution, without she has something to prevent it, as what is term'd a relieving Tackle. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) Relieving-tackles, two strong tackles used to prevent a ship from overturning on the careen, and to assist in bringing her upright after that operation is completed... Relieving-tackle, is also a name sometimes given to the train-tackles of a gun-carriage. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Relieving tackles, are also those which are occasionally hooked to the tiller in bad weather, or in action, when the wheel or tiller-rope is broken. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxv. 84 Once the wheel-rope parted, which might have been fatal to us, had not the chief mate sprung instantly with a relieving tackle to windward, and kept the tiller up till a new one could be rove. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 222 The relieving tackles are fitted as luff tackles. 1963 J. H. Parry Age of Reconnaissance 79 In big ships, relieving tackles were fitted to the tiller and secured to eyebolts on either side of the steerage. 2002 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 16 Sept. b1 Pairs of students joined Becker at the helm to steer the ship by pulling at the tiller with a rope contraption called a relieving tackle. < as lemmas |
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