| 单词 | boat rope |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboat rope boat rope n. a rope used on a boat; spec. (originally) one used in the rigging of a sail boat; (later) one used by a ship to tow a boat or lower a lifeboat. Cf. ship-rope n. at ship n.1 Compounds 3a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel > painter boat rope1336 seizing1336 tether?1504 painter1699 cut-rope1909 putty1927 1336 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 19/31 m. 4 In xxx petris corde de canabo..emptis ibidem pro vno Botrop inde faciendo. 1422–7 in S. Rose Navy of Lancastrian Kings (1982) 190 [Hawsers for] bote ropes. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vi. 28 The Boat rope is that which the ship doth tow her Boat by, at her sterne. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Hale à bord The boat-rope, or guess-rope of a boat's moorings. 1857 D. P. Thompson Gaut Gurley xviii. 267 Here is a loosened slip-knot in the end of this bark boat-rope. 1908 Man. Seamanship (1915) I. viii. 225 As the boat approaches, the boat rope should be passed into her as soon as possible by means of a heaving line. 2010 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 4 Aug. 4 The couple had already been in the 4C water for more than 90 minutes when she tied the boat rope to her arm. < as lemmas |
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