单词 | standard-knee |
释义 | > as lemmasstandard-knee standard-knee n. Shipbuilding (now chiefly historical) n type of knee (knee n. 7a), having the vertical part pointed upwards; = standing knee n.; cf. sense A. 10b. ΚΠ 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 9 All the beames to be bound with two knees at each ende, and a standard knee at euery beames end vpon the Orlope. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 295 Standard-knees. 1997 D. J. Souza Persistence of Sail in Age of Steam (1998) iv. 98 The wooden carrick-bitts, cheeks, and standard-knees have deteriorated. < as lemmas |
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