单词 | after-truck |
释义 | > as lemmasafter-truck (i) Esp. of constructed objects, parts of the body, etc., as after-limb, after-truck, etc. Now rare, except in sense 1a(a)(ii). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun] > wheel or roller stock-wheel1547 truck1611 after-truck1834 artillery wheel1834 OE Ælfric Gloss. (Julius) 317 Postela, æfterrap [OE St. John's Oxf. æfterræp]. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 199 (MED) Ure left eare we ditteð mid ure after ende. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. iv. 162 Upon the after front of this place of Armes generall is placed, armourers, cutlers, and such like. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Horse The after Joint, or bending of the hind Leg [is called] the Chambrel or Elbow. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. viii. 103 He was sharpening a long clasp knife upon the after truck of the gun. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. 25 A bamboo pole..with a thong of about 25 feet, to the end of which is sewn..the ‘after-slock’, and to this again is fastened the ‘fore-slock’. 1889 J. E. Taylor Playtime Naturalist ix. 189 You see the action of the fore limbs confined beneath the translucent skin, synchronously with the after-limbs. 1922 U.S. Naval Railway Batteries France (Navy Dept.) ii. 78 One of the latter [sc. fragments of shell] shearing off a bolt in the aftersection of the cab. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari (1961) vii. 150 Look how deep his after-claws have pierced the clay! < as lemmas |
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