单词 | stern-fast |
释义 | stern-fastn. Nautical. A rope by which a vessel's stern is moored. 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 > at stern stern-fast1569 stern-line1880 1569 J. Hawkins True Declar. Troublesome Voy. sig. B.iiiv So leesinge hyr hedfastes, and haylinge awaye by the stearne fastes she was gotten out. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 30 A Brest-fast is a rope which is fastened to some part of the Ship forward on, to hold her head to a wharfe or any thing, and a Sterne-fast is the same in the Sterne. 1797 S. James Narr. Voy. 131 The man..at the time the painter broke, called for another rope, or sternfast. 1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida I. iii. 30 The stern-fast was thrown on the quay. 1911 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 283 The boats are either jambed up against her up-stream side or tailing off from their painters and stern-fasts on the down. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1569 |
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