单词 | swing-rope |
释义 | ˈswing-rope [f. swing- + rope n.] 1. Naut. †a. ? = sheet n.2 1. Obs. b. A small rope by which a boat ‘swings’ (swing v.1 11).
1336Roll ‘W.N.’ 579 in Nicolas Hist. Royal Navy (1847) II. 471 [For skin (‘pelle’) bought of divers persons to make two] swengeropes [therewith, 2 s.]. 1844in W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scot. (1855) 323 The tie of the last net is..fixed to the swing-rope, a small hawser attached to the stern, and the boat rides to her drift as if at anchor. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 252/2 If there is a great deal of wind more swing-rope is allowed, so that the nets may not be dragged through the water. 2. A rope for a swing (swing n.2 11).
1815Sporting Mag. XLV. 153 Good swing ropes and jump cords. |

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