martingale

/mahr-tn-geyl/US // ˈmɑr tnˌgeɪl //UK // (ˈmɑːtɪnˌɡeɪl) //

马丁格尔,马丁格尔法,马丁格尔式,马丁格

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : Also called standing martingale. part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting of a strap that fastens to the girth, passes between the forelegs and through a loop in the neckstrap or hame, and fastens to the noseband: used to steady or hold down the horse's head.
- : Also called running martingale. a similar device that divides at the chest into two branches, each ending in a ring through which the reins pass.
- : Nautical. a stay for a jib boom or spike bowsprit.
- : a system of gambling in which the stakes are doubled or otherwise raised after each loss.

"Spikes your excellent father left sticking out of his martingale," he said, a sort of boyish resentment in his tones.
It comes with the onset of a "bergy-bit" which smashes the martingale as it plunges into a deep trough.
Martingale: A short spar under the bowsprit, used to give more spread to the stays that set the bowsprit or jib-boom down.
That devil of a chevalier has found an infallible martingale, he says; but it requires funds to start it.
She'd swung herself up into the martingale, an' there she'd squatted all the afternoon until we was out o' sight o' land.