| 单词 | rove and clench |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrove and clench rove and clench n. and adj. (also rove and clinch, clench and rove, clinch and rove) now rare (a) n. a type of nail provided with a rove for clinching; (b) adj. (of a nail) provided with a rove for clinching; also of work using such nails. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > nails, rivets bolts rove and clench1336 scupper-nail1485 wrakling1494 ribbing-nail1703 filling-nail1784 Blake's screw1840 in-and-out bolts1841 scarp-bolt1867 pan head1869 1336-7*Clynt' et Ros [see α. ]. 1419–22 Naval Acct. in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1951) I. 138 In..diuers' ferr' vocat' Clench' & Roff. 1488 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 15 lxj lb di of long Rofe & clenche. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 152 Roff & clynche nayles xliiij lb di... In clynche worke Roff & nayle xijlb. 1545–6 Raconyng of Voy. into Eyeslond in Mariner's Mirror 25 (1939) 173 Itm. to Bennet for lli Ruf & clynche. Itm. for xv dossyn a Breed. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 3 The Carpenter and his Mate is to haue the Nayles, Clinches, roue and clinch-nailes. 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 86 The Planckes of Clincher-boates, are thus fastned so together, which kind of work is called Rove and Clinch. 1827 Sydney Gaz. 28 Sept. Nails, Copper Boat..Ditto, Rove and Clinch. 1847 New Zealander 18 Sept. Nails, copper, boat, rove and clench. 1880 D. Kemp Man. Yacht & Boat Sailing (ed. 2) 537 She has a frame of American elm, fastened with rove and clench copper nails and wire. 1979 F. Howard Sailing Ships of War i. 21/1 The large quantities of rove-and-clench nails bought for the new ships..prove that substantial portions of those ships were clinker-plated. 1993 M. J. Darling & D. Gurney Caister-on-Sea Excavations iii. 50 (note) Rove and clench nails. < as lemmas |
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