英语词汇“iron、sick”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

iron-sick

释义

ˈiron-ˌsick, a. Naut. Now rare or Obs.
Said of a wooden ship when her bolts and nails are so corroded with rust that she has become leaky.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 13 A ship cranke sided, Iron sicke, spewes her okum.1627― Seaman's Gram. xi. 54 Iron sicke, is when the Bolts, Spikes, or Nailes are so eaten with rust they stand hollow in the plankes, and so makes her leake.1664P. Pett Let. to S. Pepys in Cal. St. Papers, Domestic 113 The Unicorn is iron-sick under the water.1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 79 Ships in ten or twelve years are generally Iron-sick.1841Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng. 132 What is technically termed ‘ironsick’, meaning that the bolt-holes became so widened by corrosion that the bolts were loosened.

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