| 单词 | stop-water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstop-water stop-water n. Nautical (a) something fixed or towed overboard to retard the motion of a ship; (b) a plug or other contrivance for making a joint watertight; (c) gen. (? nonce-use), an obstacle to the flow of water. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > drogue drift-sail1627 stop-water1794 drift-anchor1874 drogue1874 sea-anchor1877 cone-anchor1902 watersail1925 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture > means of preventing passage of gas or liquid > for preventing water stop-water1794 water stop1895 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 337 Stopwaters..on the lee quarter.., may cause the ship to veer. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 450 Making a stop-water between two of the frames of timber on the fore part of the leak. 1832 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) II. 324 If London Bridge could have kept out the first stroke of the pick-axe, the old stop-water would have been there still. 1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 95/2 It offers little or no resistance to the speed of the vessel as a stopwater. 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xi. 228 A stop-water formed of Canvas steeped in paint,..must be fitted between the continuous plates and angle-irons. < as lemmas |
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