vargord

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spar or bar used instead of a bowline. historical
    — I think the five reefs on the foresail may be a mistake, the two upper cringles serving really for the vargord — not shown. There seem to be two bowlines to the mainsail.

词形变化

vargords plural fargood alternative foregirt alternative vargood alternative

词源

Most possibly originating from Cornish dialect. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the term vargood back to 1726 in the writing of Samuel Penhallow, politician and historian.
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