单词 | cat's-paw |
释义 | ˈcat's-paw, v. [f. prec. n.] Naut. a. Of the wind: To ruffle slightly and in part the surface of water. b. To make a catspaw in the bight of a rope; to join by a cat's-paw.
1794Rigging & Seamansh. I. 217 A luff-tackle is cats-pawed to the other end of the sheet. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. ix. (1856) 69 The surface of the sea at this time was cat's-pawed as far as could be seen. |

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