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单词 snipe-bill
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snipe-billn.

Forms: Also snipe's bill.
Etymology: snipe n. 1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsnipe-bill.
1. A kind of narrow moulding-plane with a sharp arris, for forming or cutting quirks. Also attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > moulding-plane
moulding plane1649
ogee1678
snipe-bill1678
router1833
snipe1873
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 70 Plains in use among Joyners, called Molding-plains; as, the Round,..the Snipes-Bill.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Plane Moulding-Planes,..as the Round Plane, the Hollow, the OG, the Snipe's Bill, &c.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1033 Snipe's Bill Plane, one with a sharp arris for getting out the quirks of mouldings.
1873 Iron 1 Feb. 78/2 Planes... Snipe bills, per pair, 5/.
2. Conchology. The snipe-shell or snipe's head.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Muricidae > specific species of Murex
snipe-bill1713
snipe's-head1842
thorny woodcock1842
Venus comb1842
sea-purple1855
snipe-shell1889
1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ iv Haustellum,..Snipes-bill.
3. Nautical. (See quot. 1750) Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > ship's pumps > devices for working ship's pumps
pump-brake1590
brake1626
snipe-bill1750
vangee1846
1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 154 Snipe Bills are a Sort of Hooks used for fastening the Axle-trees of the Chain Pumps to the Bitts.
4. U.S. (See quots. Also written snibel.)
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > connection of body and axle
snipe-bill1860
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. Snipe-bill, the bolt which connects the body of a cart with the axle. (Local, U.S.)
1902 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Snipe-bill, a hinge beneath the body of a dumping cart, consisting of two interlinked eyebolts.
5. attributive. Resembling the bill of the snipe.
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1795 ‘P. Pindar’ Pindariana 177 Her nose of snipe-bill race, Which took a deal of snuff.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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