| 单词 |
round-top |
| 释义 |
round-top
Also roundtop.
[f. round a.]
1. Naut. A platform (formerly circular) about a mast-head.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Top-Armours, are a kind of Clothes, &c., set about the Round-tops of the Masts. 1722De Foe Col. Jack xi, A man on the roundtop cried out, Au voile, a sail. 1769R. Wood Ess. Genius Homer p. xxxi, As I looked from the round-top of the main mast, the fresh water appeared like an immense muddy pond. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xxi, The fog was up to our round⁓tops at sunrise this morning. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. xl. 242 Jones could use only their nine-pounders and muskets from the round-tops.
2. attrib. Having a rounded top.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mech. 644 [A railway] known..by the denomination of the edge rail, round-top rail, fish-backed rail, &c. 1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. 251/2 Black enameled iron, round top trunk. 1962L. S. Sasieni Princ. & Pract. Optical Dispensing xii. 312 Round Top Fused [Trifocals]. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 129/1 Round-top butch, a hair style for men in which the hair is cut very short to a round contour. |
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