单词 | squatboard |
释义 | squatboardn. Nautical. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ 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 1905 Rudder Feb. 62/2 There is one institution on the St. Lawrence which, it is believed, is peculiar to it and but little known of elsewhere; the ‘squat board’. This is an appendage in the form of a horizontal plane attached to the stern. 1953 M. V. Brewington Chesapeake Bay: Pictorial Maritime Hist. vi. 167 The stern settled so badly when underway ‘squatboards’ were necessary. 1955 J.-O. Traung Fishing Boats of World I. 8/2 To overcome the resulting ‘squatting’ or settling aft, ‘squatboards’ have been added. These are flat wooden fins or planes placed at and nearly parallel to the waterline under and abaft the stern, to hold the stern up when the boat is driven hard. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1905 |
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