| 单词 | timber and room |
| 释义 | > as lemmastimber and room a. timber and room: = room and space at Phrases 6b. Now historical. ΚΠ 1649 Shipbuilding Contract (modernized text) in Mariner's Mirror (1955) 41 48 The space of timber and room to be 2 ft 2 in at the most. 1664 E. Bushnell Compl. Ship-wright v. 15 This Arch..and the crooked pricked line within the Keele..are placed at 2 Foot Timber and Roome, as you may see by the Scale. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 70 (table) Space of Timber and Room..1 [foot] 9 [inches]. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. Fv The breadth of two timbers, or the timber and room, which includes the two timbers and the space between them, may be taken without any sensible error, as far as the square body goes. 1987 P. Goodwin Constr. & Fitting Eng. Man of War i. 13/2 The rule of ‘room and space’—or ‘timber and room’ as it was earlier known—had been applied in naval construction well before 1650. < as lemmas |
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