| 单词 | rough-tree rail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrough-tree rail rough-tree rail n. a length of timber forming the upper rail of the bulwarks on a ship's side. [So called on account of the former practice in merchant vessels of carrying their ‘rough’ or spare spars in crutches along the waist.] ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > rails or mouldings > at sides lee-rail1513 waist1667 sheer-rail1769 rough-tree rail1780 foot rail1781 waist-rail1804 side rail1903 1780 Boyer's Dictionnaire Royal (rev. ed.) I. 264/2 Filarets,..rails to extend the netting on a ship's quarter, waist or forecastle, or rough-tree-rails. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. vii. 440 Our ship frequently rolled the lee-boats into the water, that were suspended with their keels above the roughtree-rail! 1982 P. Clissold Layton's Dict. Naut. Words (rev. ed.) 284 Rough Tree Rail, timber resting on tops of frames and forming the upper part of a bulwark. 2005 K. H. Marquardt 44-gun Frigate USS Constitution 24 A vessel with an open rough tree rail along the whole sheer from bow to stern. < as lemmas |
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