waler

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈweɪlə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse. Australia,India
    — Without reason, against prudence, and at a moment's notice, he fell in love with a frivolous, golden-haired girl who used to tear about Simla Mall on a high, rough waler, with a blue velvet jockey-cap crammed over her eyes.
  2. A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress.
    — 1998, Richard Lampo, Thomas Nosker, Doug Barno, John Busel, Ali Maher, Piyush Dutta, Robert Odello, Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR) Program: Development and Demonstration of Composite FRP Fender, Loadbearing, and Sheet Piling Systems, US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, USACERL Technical Report 98/123, page 65, Another consideration is when walers are placed between the piles (Figure 27) and to what extent the pile could deform before the load of the berthing vessel would be shared by the adjacent walers.

词形变化

walers plural walers plural

词源

词源 1
From (New South) Wale(s) + -er, the horse having been bred in the then colony of New South Wales in the 19th century.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English wale
English -er
English waler
From wale + -er.
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