单词 | to pound off |
释义 | > as lemmasto pound off 5. transitive. Newfoundland. to pound off: to divide (the hold of a fishing vessel) into compartments for storage (cf. pound n.2 5a); (gen.) to partition. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be or make interjacent [verb (transitive)] > partition or form a partition > to form compartments penfold1830 to pound off1873 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > into sections or compartments space1557 comparta1785 section1819 sectionize1828 partition1849 sectionalize1854 to pound off1873 pigeonhole1879 compartment1930 compartmentalize1945 cellularize1948 1873 M. Carroll Seal & Herring Fisheries Newfoundland 9 Sailing vessels..are pounded off in the hold to prevents the seals' pelts from shifting. 1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 426 In the hair-seal fishery, on the coast of Newfoundland, the vessel's hold is ‘pounded off’ into bins only a little larger than the skins. 1982 G. M. Story et al. Dict. Newfoundland Eng. 390/1 My father had our basement pounded off. < as lemmas |
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