英语词汇“hammock、cloth”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

hammock-cloth

释义

hammock-cloth
[The relation of sense 1 to hammock¹ is not apparent.]
†1. A cloth for the back of a horse. Obs.
1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2060/4 A Hammock Cloth for a Coach Horse, of a Dark-hair-color'd Cloth Imbroider'd with Red and White.1687Ibid. 2270/4, 2 Hammock Cloaths of green Flowred Velvet on a white Ground, both fringed with Scarlet and White.
2. = hammer-cloth. (? By confusion.)
1830E. Eden Let. in Mrs. Swinton Lady de Ros (1893) 41, I thought a hammock-cloth would be better under those circumstances than a dicky.
3. Naut. A cloth used for covering the hammocks to protect them from wet when stowed in the nettings on the top of the bulwarks.
1804Nelson 28 July in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VI. 120 The want of these hammock-cloths will be severely felt, and there is none on board to cover the men's bedding.1842J. F. Cooper Jack o' Lantern I. 148 The hammocks were not stowed, and the hammock-cloths had that empty and undressed look so common to a man-of-war in the night.

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