单词 | traverse-horse |
释义 | > as lemmastraverse-horse 9. Nautical (a) A rope stretched under a yard, on which sailors stand in handing sails; a foot-rope. (b) A rope for a sail to travel on, also called traverse-horse. (c) A jack-stay on which a sail is hauled out. (d) Applied to various other ropes used to support or to guide. (e) A horizontal bar of iron or wood used as a traveller for the sheet-block of a fore-and-aft sail. (f) Applied to various other bars used as protections, etc. (See quots. and Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope or batten to bend sail to horse1626 jackstay1808 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > permanent rigging of a yard > foot-rope foot ropeOE horse1626 foot line1813 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > sheet or brace > bar on which sheet-block travels horse1626 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > sheet or brace > rope to keep foresail sheets clear of anchor horse1626 timenoguy1750 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 14 The fore top sayle hallyard..the horse, the maine sheats. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 21 A Horse is a rope made fast to the fore mast shrouds, and the Spretsaile sheats, to keepe those sheats cleare of the anchor flookes. 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xiv. 64 The Horse for the main Topsail yard. 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xiv. 64 The Main Horse and Tackle. 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xiv. 66 The Horse on the Bowsprit. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Horse,..also a Rope made fast to the Shrowds, to preserve him that heaves out the Lead there from falling into the Sea. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Wapp Those little short Wapps which are seized to the Top-mast and Top-gallant-mast Stay, wherein the Bowlings of the Top-sail and Top-gallant-sail are let thro', are also call'd Horses. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 114 Horses for the Yards; a Conveniency for the Men to tread on, in going out to furl the Sails. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Horse, is also a Rope in a Ship, made fast to one of the Fore-mast Shrouds; having a dead Man's Eye at its End, through which the Pendant of the Sprit-sail Sheets is reev'd. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 6 Horse, a thick iron rod, fastened at the ends to the inside of the stern of vessels that carry a fore and aft mainsail, for the main sheet to travel on. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 167 Bowsprit-horses..serve as rails for the men to hold by, when..out upon the bowsprit. Flemish-horses are small horses under the yards without the cleats. Jib-horses hang under the jib-boom. Traverse-horses are of rope, or iron, for sails to travel on, &c. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Flemish Horse..placed at the top-sail-yard-arms, on which the man who passes the earing usually stands. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Iron Horse, in ship building, the name given to a large round bar of iron, fixed in the heads of ships, with stanchions and netting. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 125 Horse, the round bar of iron which is fixed to the main rail and back of the figure in the head, with stanchions, and to which is attached a netting for the safety of the men who have occasion to be in the head. 1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) i. 15 I was stationed a-head on the out-look beside the foresail horse. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 17 What is the name of the standing rigging for jib and flying jibbooms? Foot ropes or horses, inner and outer jib guys,..flying jib foot ropes or horses. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) Horses are also called jackstays, on which sails are hauled out, as gaff-sails. < as lemmas |
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