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单词 roband
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robandn.

Brit. /ˈrəʊband/, /ˈrəʊbənd/, /ˈrɒbɪn/, U.S. /ˈroʊˌbænd/, /ˈrɑbən/
Forms: Middle English robond, Middle English roebandes (plural), Middle English roobandes (plural), 1700s–1800s roban, 1700s– roband.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English ro , rae n., band n.1
Etymology: < ro, variant of rae n. (compare α. forms at that entry) + band n.1 (compare bond n.1); compare raeband n. and Germanic parallels cited at that entry. Compare also earlier rae-bend at rae n. Compounds, rope-bend n.
Nautical.
Chiefly in plural. A piece of small rope passed through eyelet-holes in the head of a sail and used to secure the sail to the yard above.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes securing sail to yard
headline1294
rope-bend1294
roband1336
robbin1497
raeband1513
rope-yard1611
earing1626
leech-line1626
rope-band1769
jackstay1834
roving1837
1336–7 Naval Acct. in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1958) II. 94 (MED) In iij petris cord. de canab..empt. apud lenn. Robondes..iij s..Et in ij petris cord. de canab..pro swifftes et robond..ij s.
1420 Foreign Accts. 3 Henry VI (Public Rec. Office) K/2 (MED) ij parui lynes pro Roebandes ponderis j qu. ij lb.
1420–1 Naval Acct. in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1958) II. 94 ji cordis paruis vocatis Roobandes.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Sail The heads of all four-sided sails, and the fore-leeches of lateen sails, are attached to their respective yard or gaff by a number of small cords called robands.
1787 W. Hutchinson Treat. Pract. Seamanship (ed. 2) 50 It requires robands and points in the middle part of each cloth, to confine the sails cleverly to the yards and gaffs.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiv. 116 All hands were..picking old rope to pieces, or laying up gaskets and robands.
1860 H. Stuart Novice's or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 2 What is a roband or rolling hitch used for? For bending sails,..for reefing courses,..&c.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 82 In a man-of-war, where they can send a man to every roband.
1936 Mariner's Mirror 22 480/1 The mast..was either damaged by the wear and tear of the robands or splintered by bending or opened too much by cracks.
1984 J. Harland Seamanship in Age of Sail vii. 103/1 The sail was laced to the gaff, fastened with robands, or seized to rings travelling on the gaff.
2001 Re: Walking Wounded in alt.sailing.asa (Usenet newsgroup) 20 May From the photos I note you use a continuous lashing on your gaffs rather than robands. Why that way?

Compounds

roband-leg n. Obsolete each of the branches of a roband.
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1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 25 The reef-lines next..Thro' eye-lid-holes and roband-legs are reev'd.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Reefing Provided that the turns are inserted through the roband-legs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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