单词 | spurket |
释义 | † spurketn. Obsolete. (See quots.) From one or other of these 17th cent. quots. the word and explanation are copied into subsequent dictionaries, the form being latterly altered to spirket, probably by association with spirketting n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > space between timbers room1408 spurketa1625 a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) Spurketts are the holes or spaces betwixt the Rungs by the Ships sides fore and aft above and below. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 3 The Spurkits are the spaces betwixt the timbers alongst the ship side in all parts, but them in Howle below the Sleepers are broad boords, which they take vp to cleare the Spurkits, if any thing get betwixt the timbers. 1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services 99 The Spaces betwixt the Futtocks, or betwixt the rungs by the Ships side, fore and aft, above and below, are named the Spurkets. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1625 |
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