| 释义 |
† navin Sc. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 nawine, -yn, 6 navin(e, -ing, -en.
[var. of navy: the origin of the suffix is obscure.]
Shipping, fleet, navy.
1375Barbour Bruce iii. 393 Schyr Nele Cambel befor send he, For to get him nawyn and meite. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxviii. (Adrian) 603 A gret wynd rase..& scalit his nawine to & fra. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 278 The rede nawyn in to the hawyn thai socht. 1513Douglas æneis iv. vi. 18 He..bad thai suld..graith his schippis and navine secretly. 1549Compl. Scot. xi. 91 Ane grit nauen of schipis. |