| 释义 |
sunker Newfoundland.|ˈsʌŋkə(r)|
[f. sunk ppl. a. + -er1.]
A submerged rock. Also fig.
c1880in G. S. Doyle Old Time Songs & Poetry of Newfoundland (1927) 29 We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below, Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers. 1896Jrnl. Amer. Folklore IX. 33 Among the peculiar words connected with the fishing I note the following:..sunker, a breaker. 1951Newfoundland & Labrador Pilot I. 134 Duck Road shoal, about 4 cables north-eastward of Eastern head and Anchor Cove Sunkers. 1966A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 63 The words don't seem to have a clear channel from me brain to me lips. Too many sunkers for 'em to ground on, I spose. 1973Maclean's Mag. Jan. 16/1 At dusk, the Nordfjeld slammed onto a ‘sunker’, a rock that's awash at high tide, one mile off Flowers Cove. |