单词 | bumkin brace |
释义 | > as lemmasbumkin brace bumkin brace n. now rare = bumkin shroud n. ΚΠ 1805 in B. Lavery Shipboard Life & Organisation (1998) 594 To lanyards to bumpkin braces, old, worn out..Rope, 2½ ins. 1846 Colburn's United Service Mag. Dec. 569 Those who could not swim filled the stern ladders, ports, bumpkin-braces, bowsprit-shrouds, spritsail-yards, &c., most of them gave way, and those on them were precipitated into the sea. 1865 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 3) 162 The hose being..used by a man standing on the bumpkin braces. 1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 100/1 Bumkin shroud, strong ropes, iron stays or chains that hold the bumkins in position. Also called bumkin braces. < as lemmas |
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