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单词 to cast, heave the lead
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to cast, heave the lead
a. A ‘bob’ or lump of lead suspended by a string to ascertain the depth of water; a sounding-lead. Phrases, to cast, heave the lead. to arm the lead: to fill the hollow in the lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867 s.v. Arm). †Also, the leaden sinker of a net.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > sounding-line or -rod > weight on sounding-line
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c1440 York Myst. ix. 199 I sall caste leede and loke þe space.
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1440 Cast a led, & In vs gyde.
a1609 J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) i. xix. sig. B4 Then on that Linke hang Leads of euen waight.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 29 Heaue the lead.
1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) 1187 Their leede ay..Might warne them.
1657 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms xxv. 1 The best heart is lumpish, and naturally beareth downward, as the poise of a clock, as the lead of a net.
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 13 I sent my shalloppes out with leades to sound the depth.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Sounding Sounding with the hand-lead..is called heaving the lead by seamen.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. iv. 71 A man..lowering down the lead, sounded in seven fathoms.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxxv. 249 We ran through the Swin by the lead.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 248 The lead used..was the ordinary hand-lead of 9 lbs. instead of the deep sea-lead of 28 to 32 lbs.
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