| 单词 |
side-post |
| 释义 |
ˈside-post
[side n.1]
1. One of the posts at either side of a doorway; a door-post. (Chiefly in Biblical echoes.)
1535Coverd. Exod. xii. 22 Stryke it vpon the vpper poste and vpon the two syde postes. [Similarly 1572 and 1611.] 1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 140 The striking of its Blood upon the Side-posts of their Houses. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. II. 635 Striking the blood on the side-posts. 1865J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire (1872) 562 To sprinkle its blood on the side-posts and on the lintel. 1874Ruskin Val D'Arno 217, I intended..to have insisted, at some length, on the decoration of the lintel and side-posts.
2. A post supporting a roof at or towards one side of it.
1625in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 197 The syde⁓postes of y⊇ roofe. 1850Parker Gloss. Arch. (ed. 5) 427 Side-posts in a roof-truss, are posts placed in pairs at an equal distance from the middle. 1862― Richman's Gothic Archit. 200 The vaulting-shafts or half pillars..carrying either the ribs of the vault, or the side posts of the open timber roof. |
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