| 单词 | runner block |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrunner block a. In sense 16a, as runner block, runner purchase, runner tackle, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse 198 The runner block K will only rise..through half that space. 1822 T. Arnold Amer. Pract. Lunarian 326 Some put on a runner purchase, inside of the hawse-hole; but this is a very bad purchase, as the friction and the short nip in the hawse act very much against it. 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 46 A Runner-Tackle is a luff applied to a runner. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 586 Runner-purchase, the addition of a tackle to a single rope, then termed a pendant, passing through a block applied to the object to be moved. 1882 D. Kemp Man. Yacht & Boat Sailing (ed. 3) iv. 32 The double blocks on the bowsprit shrouds and runner tackle are fiddles. 1984 J. Harland Seamanship in Age of Sail (1985) vii. 121/2 A runner block was lashed to the mast about two-thirds, or three-quarters of the way up. 2008 M. Drayton tr. D. Fabbroni Rigging i. 32 It is common practice to splice a smaller line to the end of the runner tail. < as lemmas |
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