单词 | rope-yard |
释义 | † rope-yardn.1 Obsolete. rare. = roband n. ΘΚΠ 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 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rabans, rope-yards; the ropes, or treble cordes whereby the sayles of a ship are tied vnto the yardes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2018). rope-yardn.2 A yard where ropes are made. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > rope ropery1329 rope-house1571 rope-yard1640 yarn-crofta1661 rope-work1663 rope-ground1665 ropewalk1671 walk1747 laying house1778 1640 State Papers Domest. Charles I in D. Freist Governed by Opinion (1997) v. 216 For feare that he and the rest that belonge to Burridge house should sett the kings rope yard on fire. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 15 Jan. (1970) II. 14 We walked to the waterside and..into the Ropeyard. 1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 420 This Article alone would yield many a tedious Holy-day to the Anchor-Smiths and the Rope-Yards. 1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 190 Woolers, Double, Single, Hand—used at the Rope Yard. 1810 Let. 27 Nov. in Mariner's Mirror (1982) 68 164 Mr Maudslay to..send to Deptford for the use of your ropeyard..Jack Wheels of all sizes. 1864 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress 188 There are the vessels in which cotton is imported, with the building-slips, the rope-yards. 1981 Mariner's Mirror 67 12 The buildings of the ropeyards, where the spinning and laying houses were usually over a thousand feet in length, had important effects on the planning of these yards. 1986 N. A. M. Rodger Wooden World (1988) i. 34 Senior officers of each yard were the master shipwright (who in practice carried some sort of pre-eminence).., and the master ropemaker, who ran the semi-independent ropeyard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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