| 单词 |
knight-head |
| 释义 |
knight-head Naut.|ˈnaɪtˌhɛd|
a. One of two large timbers in a vessel that rise obliquely from the keel behind the stem, one on each side, and support the bowsprit, which is fixed between them; called also bollard timbers.
†b. A windlass-bitt (obs.).
†c. = knight 8 (obs.).
1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 115 They are reev'd through Knight-heads, and so hal'd home. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Knight-Heads, two strong pieces of timber, fixed on the opposite sides of the main-deck, a little behind the fore-mast... They are sometimes called the bits, and in this sense their upper parts only are denominated knight-heads,..being formerly embellished with a figure designed to resemble a human head... Knight-heads, was also a name formerly given to the lower jear-blocks, which were then no other than bits. 1883Cent. Mag. Oct. 946/2 Her..bows would be buried in a smother of foam clear to the knight-heads. |
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