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单词 strongback
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strongbackn.

Brit. /ˈstrɒŋbak/, U.S. /ˈstrɔŋˌbæk/, /ˈstrɑŋˌbæk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: strong adj., back n.1
Etymology: < strong adj. + back n.1, in sense 1 with allusion to the strengthening qualities attributed to medicinal infusions made from the plant.
1. Caribbean. Any of several plants used to make medicinal infusions. Cf. strong bark n. at strong adj. Compounds 3.
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1739 Philos. Trans. 1737–8 (Royal Soc.) 40 350 Pittoniæ similis [frutex]. In the Bahama Islands it is called Strong-back; a Decoction of the Bark is used there to strengthen the Stomach, and restore the Appetite.
1927 M. W. Beckwith Notes Jamaican Ethnobotany 28 Strong-back..For a weak back drink a little as tea each day.
1953 Caribbean Q. 3 i. 10 There are two or three kinds of strong-back (to make strengthening tea).
2000 Amer. Forests (Nexis) 22 Mar. 8 He found 14 new champs, all on Key Largo, with appropriately exotic names like princewood, Bahama strongback, red stopper, and myrtle-of-the-river.
2. Nautical. Any of various strong beams or supports (see quots.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bitts or Samson post
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > davit > spar across
strongback1890
1853 Colburn's United Service Mag. July 455 She was then towing us by her stream cable made fast to our stream cable, which was passed through our starboard hawse-hole, and was made fast by a round turn round our fore bitts, and over the strongback.
1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 397 Strong-back, for the Chain Cable.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Strong-back, the same with Samson's post (which see). Also, an adaptation of a strong piece of wood over the windlass, to lift the turns of a chain-cable clear of it.
1890 Cent. Dict. Strong-back,..(a) A piece of wood or iron over the windlass, to trice the chain up to when the windlass is to be used for any purpose. (b) A spar across boat-davits, to which the boat is secured at sea.
1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 176/2 Strongback, a steel (or wood) beam placed across a hatch to support the sections of the hatch covers... A spar lashed to and running between the old style davits to steady them and to aid in controlling and securing the boat.
1953 ‘C. S. Forester’ Hornblower & Atropos xvi. 253 The next morning Hornblower watched launch and longboat start off with strongbacks erected in their sterns, and blocks and tackles rigged on them.
1977 Austral. Sailing Jan. 38/3 The strongback on which the mast is stepped is made as a complete trussed girder beam which is placed as a unit inside the shell.
2008 B. Roberts-Goodson Illustr. Custom Boatbuilding (2013) vi. 130/2 For hulls built upside down, your plans should include details of preparing the base needed to set up the hull frames. This base is either called bed-log or strongback.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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