英语词汇“heel、rope”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

heel-rope

释义

heel-rope, n.
A rope attached to the heel of anything: spec. a. A rope rove through a sheave at the heel of the bowsprit or jib-boom, in order to haul it out; a rope temporarily attached to the heel of a rudder to move or secure it. b. A rope by which the heels of a horse are fastened so as to prevent kicking.
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 172 Heel-rope is to haul out the bowsprits of cutters, etc.1854H. H. Wilson tr. Ṛig-veda II. 115 The halter and the heel-ropes of the fleet courser.1869E. J. Reed Shipbuild. xiii. 251 Heel-ropes are usually fitted to large iron rudders.1886Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List Sept. 1525 Heel Ropes, V Shape, with Leather Leg Strap.1893W. T. Waun S. Sea Islanders 173, I..rove a heel rope to the main-top-mast.
Hence heel-rope v., to fasten with a heel-rope.
1890R. Kipling in Fortn. Rev. XLVII. 357 Even the stallion too long heel-roped, forgets how to fight.

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