| 单词 | running rigging |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrunning rigging running rigging n. Nautical the adjustable ropes, chains, wires, and associated fittings used to operate a vessel's sails, derricks, booms, etc.; also in extended use.Opposed to standing rigging n. at standing adj. and n.2 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging running rigging1653 running gear1824 1653 N. Buckeridge Let. 30 Nov. in Jrnl. & Let. Bk. (1973) 80 Alsoe A main stay, new runing riging for all ye other sales, Sale Cloth. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. ii. 135 To unlay a cable to work into running rigging. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iii. 20 When first leaving port, studding-sail gear is to be rove, all the running rigging to be examined. 1890 All Year Round 29 Mar. 304 The guide-ropes, the halliards, the running-rigging of the scenic show beneath [sc. in a theatre]. 1947 Commerc. Salmon-fisheries Brit. Columbia (Dept. Fisheries, Brit. Columbia) (rev. ed.) 28 The essential equipment used for seining consists of a stout mast and heavy swinging boom, with the necessary standing and running rigging. 2002 D. Lundy Way of Ship (2003) i. 16 The precise, universal order of a wind ship's running rigging. < as lemmas |
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