| 单词 | top-armour |
| 释义 | > as lemmastop-armour top-armour n. see quots. a1625, 1867.ⓘ ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > platform at top of mast > embattled platform on warship > armour on armour1466 top-armour1485 top-arming1486 top-armsc1599 1485 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 184 Item ij zerdes di rede..for the tope armer... Item an zerde of wyght for the same. 1514 Inv. Henri Grace de Dieu in M. Oppenheim Hist. Admin. Royal Navy (1896) I. 377 Top Armours..vii. a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (MS BL Harl. 2301) Topparmors are the clothes which are tied aboute the Tops of the mastes for shewe and also for to hide menn in the Fight which lie there to fling fire-potts [etc.]. 1823 G. Crabb Technol. Dict. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Top This top was formerly fenced on the afterside by a rail about three feet high, between the stanchions of which a netting was usually constructed, and stowed in action with hammocks. This was covered with red baize, or canvas painted red, and called the top-armour. < as lemmas |
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