| 单词 | rule-staff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrule-staff rule-staff n. now historical and rare (a) a measuring rod; (b) Shipbuilding a flexible piece of wood used to measure the curves of a vessel's timbers. ΚΠ 1624 Quarter Session Judicial Files Winter (Cheshire Arch.: QJF 53/4) f. 43 A poore woman being in the howse and seeing the said Sparkes rule staffe lye on the floore tooke it vp and stroke him vpon the head wt it. 1652 G. Fox Jrnl. (1709) I. 160 There was in the Company a Mason, a Professor, but a rude Fellow; He with his walking Rule-Staff gave me a Blow with all his might. 1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 133 Spilings, the dimensions taken from a straight line, a mould's edge, or rule-staff, to any given line or edge. 1875 E. Kellogg Young Ship-builders Elm Island xii. 176 You see..that this rule staff, being bent on, has followed exactly the twist of the timbers. 2003 G. Walker Crime, Gender & Social Order in Early Mod. Eng. ii. 49 A ‘poor woman’ assisted an ale-wife who had come to blows with John Spark over his unpaid dues, by hitting Spark over the head with his own rule-staff. < as lemmas |
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