单词 | sponson |
释义 | sponsonn. 1. One or other of the triangular platforms before and abaft the paddle-boxes of a steamer. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > side decks of paddle steamer sponson1835 wing1846 wing-deck1889 α. β. 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 384/2 Breadth over the sponsons, 43 ft. Ditto over the paddle boxes, 48 ft.1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. i. 3 Then had come..a day of..watching..the water from the sponson behind the paddle-boxes.attributive.1835 [see α. ]. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 644 Sponson-Rim, the same as wing-wale.1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2287/1 Sponson-beam,..one of the two projecting beams uniting the paddle-box beam with the ship's side.1835 Naut. Mag. 4 154 The ‘Lightning’ was ran into by a collier, which struck her just abaft her paddle-box... Her sponcings and sponcing-timbers were broken. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 292 Sponsings, or Sponcings, in a steam-ship, the curve of the timbers and planking towards the outer part of the wing before and abaft each of the paddle-boxes. 2. A gun platform, standing out from the side of a vessel. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > platform at side for gun sponson1862 1862 W. H. Russell My Diary North & South I. 291 The ship..is armed..with rifled field-pieces and howitzers on the sponsons. 1887 Daily News 24 Oct. 5/5 The system..of carrying heavy guns..in sponson ports so high on the poop and forecastle. 1897 Daily News 28 July 8/5 Their construction (five sponsons on each side of the upper deck) causes them to roll heavily. 3. a. Canadian. An air-filled buoyancy chamber in a canoe, intended to reduce the risk of sinking even if the canoe becomes filled with water; so sponson canoe. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > other types of canoe pirogue1666 dory1709 Montreal canoe1793 waka1807 tandem canoe1867 Rob Roy1868 canot du maître1872 Peterborough1882 snake-boat1882 shadow canoe1883 tandem1884 buckeye1885 Canader1893 vinta1900 bellum1901 spoon canoe1907 sponson canoe1911 ratting canoe1944 tarada1960 canot du nord1961 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > device to increase or adjust buoyancy > specific air chamber1664 air-box1744 trimming-tank1903 squatboard1905 sponson1968 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 14 Apr. 19/1 (advt.) Don't fail to see the safety sponson canoes that cannot sink. 1917 P. L. Haworth On Headwaters of Peace River i. 6 The craft in question were really Chestnut sponson canoes, seventeen feet long... It had never been my intention to take a sponson canoe on the trip. 1968 R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 109 This proved to be a seventeen-foot Chestnut ‘Pleasure Model’ canoe fitted with sponsons—that is, with air-chambers along the gunwales so designed that the canoe, with an average load in it, would float even when swamped and full of water. b. A projection from the hull or body of some kinds of aircraft, intended to increase its lateral stability in the water; also, a stabilizer in the form of a float at the end of a wing. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > stabilizer > stabilizer on seaplane sponson1928 stub wing1931 stub1935 1928 V. W. Pagé Mod. Aircraft xvi. 668 It is a braced monoplane type, the hull being supplemented by sponsons of aerofoil section at each side. 1930 Flight 31 Oct. (Aircraft Engineer Suppl.) 1192b/2 Design of wing-tip floats or sponsons. 1935 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 39 826 With regard to the use of sponsons or stubs, he had understood Mr. Coombes to say that one could reckon on some aerodynamic lift from the stub. 1965 R. Sheckley Game of X (1966) xviii. 127 The hydroplane climbed out of the water, balancing on her two sponsons. 1971 Maclean's Oct. 70/2 Only part of the propeller, some of the rudder, and pieces of the sponsons at the front actually cut into the water. 1983 Times 5 Aug. 2/8 The helicopter hit the sea... The impact ripped open the bottom of the fuselage and removed the sponsons containing emergency flotation gear. Derivatives ˈsponson v. transitive to support, or set out, on a sponson. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > use naval weapons and equipment [verb (transitive)] > support gun on sponson sponson1895 1895 Morning Post 10 Aug. 4/5 The same may be said of cruisers, part of whose most important armament is sponsoned out on the broadside. ˈsponsoned adj. ΚΠ 1897 River & Coast 4 Sept. 13/1 The sponsoned deck acts as a guard to the hull. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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