| 单词 |
ground-tackle |
| 释义 |
ground-tackle
[Cf. Du. grondtakel, G. grund-tackelage.]
A general name for all ropes, cables, anchors, or other tackle made use of in anchoring, mooring, or kedging a vessel.
1556J. Incent in Hakluyt Voy. (1599) I. 286 The said ship being beaten from her ground tackles, was driuen vpon the rockes. 1600J. Jane Ibid. III. 848 To put into the Streights, wee durst not for lacke of ground-tackle. a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 375/2 Never Ships..were better fitted with Ground Tackle. 1742Woodroofe in Hanway Trav. (1762) I. ii. xvii. 77 With such ships, by the help of good ground tackle, they navigate the Caspian. 1859J. S. Mansfield in Merc. Marine Mag. (1860) VII. 15 The ground tackle seems..to have been free from objection.
So ground-tackling (in same sense).
1600J. Jane in Hakluyt Voy. III. 843 Wee haue no sailes, no victuals, no ground-tackling, no cordage. 1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4703/4 Cordage and Ground-Tackling very good. 1798E. Berry in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1845) III. 66 The dismasted Prize..is badly off for ground tackling. |
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