polehead
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The portion of a mast above the crossbar that holds the sail, which sometimes support a flag or topsail.
— The sketch is from a photograph, and shows one of these old type of vessels before a light wind, with a small square topsail set upon the polehead of her single lofty spar.
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The top of a flagpole.
— They are not seen again until the camping-ground for the night is reached, when the four tents will be found pitched ready for us, with English and American flags flying at their poleheads.
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The top of any pole.
— The second type of collector is of the wood-pole, lubricated slider variety, having a box-type pole, poleheads that are individually flexible, and roller-bearing base provided with a passage for the cables and a stop to limit rotation.
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The front portion of the pole that attaches a coach or wagon to the team of horses that pulls it.
— The best pole-chains are those one end of which is fastened to a langet - frequently called a bridle - which slips over the end of the pole-hook, and fits into its place at the end of the polehead, the other end of the pole-chain having a long hook.
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A housing for wires that is attached to the top of a telephone pole or similar pole carrying power lines.
— I think that the construction of a polehead to take care of the overhead ground wire is open to criticism.
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An emblem, usually made of metal, that tops a pole which is carried by the steward or secretary of a rural British club or friendly society.
— Unfortunately the Trent polehead cannot be traced, but the rules of the “Trent and Compton Friendly Society', founded in 1819, are in the County Record Office in Taunton.
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A tadpole.
— As “ the porwigle or tadpole” or “ loggerhead” or “polehead” is popularly supposed to be all head and tail, and as the latter seems to wiggle more than the former, a hint as to the precise meaning of the compounds “polwygle” and "polliwog" would have been welcome.
词源
From pole + head.
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