| 单词 | vane staff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvane staff vane-pin, vane-spindle, vane staff, vane-surmounted adj., vane-wheel. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > meteorological instruments > [noun] > wind-vane or weather-cock > parts of swallowtail1842 vane-spindle1844 vane-pin1889 1844 in Noad Electricity (ed. 2) 95 The balls from which arise the vane-spindles of the two churches. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 306/2 The vane staff is more calculated for the purpose [than the levelling staff]. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) ix. 84 Then came rows of houses, with little vane-surmounted masts uprearing themselves from among the scarlet beans. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Vane-spindle, the pivot on which the masthead-vane turns. 1889 P. H. Emerson Eng. Idyls 22 She was black from stem to stern, from keel to vane-pin. 1922 Glasgow Herald 28 June 9 The vane wheels may be placed side by side abaft the stern of the ship. < as lemmas |
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