| 释义 |
shoreman|ˈʃɔəmən|
Also U.S. (sense 2) shoresman.
[f. shore n.1 + man n.]
1. A dweller on the seashore.
1643Trapp Comm. Gen. xlix. 13 Shore-men are said to be horridi, immanes. 1783Ann. Reg. 120 A little army was formed..composed of 80 American rangers,..of 500 shore⁓men, white and negroes, and 600 Musquito Indians. 1839Times 2 Sept. 4/1 The enthusiasm of the Kentish shoremen spread rapidly into the adjacent districts.
2. One who is employed on shore in the business of a fishery: see quot. 1883.
See also quot. 1690; but it is doubtful whether the explanation there given is correct.
1690Child Disc. Trade (1698) 227 There being employed in that Trade two hundred and fifty Ships, which might carry about ten thousand seamen, fishermen and shoremen, as they usually call the younger persons, who were never before at Sea. 1761Ann. Reg., Chron. 188/2 Who are the chief people among the fishermen and shoremen, being the catchers and curers of fish. 1792G. Cartwright Jrnl. Labrador I. Gloss. p. xiv, Shoremen, the people who are employed on shore, to head, split, and salt the codfish. 1872Talmage Serm. 56 Some plain shoresman in rough fishing smack..brings them ashore in safety. 1883G. B. Goode Fish. Indust. U.S. 22 (Fish. Exh. Publ.) To the class of ‘shoresmen’ belong (1) the capitalists who furnish supplies and apparatus for the use of the active fishermen; (2) the shopkeepers from whom they purchase provisions and clothing; and (3) the skilled labourers who manufacture for them articles of apparel [etc.].
3. One who makes his living by shooting on the shore; a shore-gunner.
1882Payne-Gallwey Fowler in Irel. 348 Once offend the shoremen,..and your sport is spoilt in that locality for years to come.
4. A landsman.
1888Stevenson Black Arrow iii. iv, We are not like shore-men, we old, tough tarry-Johns! |