| 释义 |
shalloway Canad. Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈʃæləʊweɪ|
[Origin unknown.]
A small coastal sailing craft.
1676in D. W. Prowse Hist. Newfoundland from Eng., Colonial, & Foreign Rec. (1895) viii. 206 No Indians come [to Placentia] but some Canida Indians from forts of Canida in french shallowayes. 1774G. Cartwright Jrnl. Residence Coast of Labrador (1792) II. 14 Hooper's shalloway having sprung her foremast,..I sent the boat-builder to make her a new one. 1971E. R. Seary Place Names v. 86 The fishing boats in the cod and seal fishery were formerly called shallops and shalloways... The shalloways were open boats, what are now called punts. |