单词 | sheepshank |
例句 | The chief steward was a friend, the bos'n or quartermaster had shown us the trick of a sheepshank or a reef-knot or a short splice. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Tie four out of the following knots: square or reef, sheet-bend, bowline, fisherman's, sheepshank, halter, clove hitch, timber hitch, or two half hitches. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 The sheepshank knot serves to shorten a rope without cutting it, and may be presently loosened. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. |
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