| 释义 |
courge|kʊəʒ|
[Fr., = gourd.]
A basket, towed behind a fishing-boat, for holding live bait.
1865J. C. Wilcocks Sea-Fisherman 45 Manufacture of ‘cou[r] ges’ or Sand Eel baskets. 1898Encycl. Sport II. 321/2 The ‘courge’, a torpedo-shaped basket into which the baits are introduced by an aperture that is closed with a bung. Ibid. 322/2 The orthodox Channel Islands ‘courge’. 1900Cornhill Mag. Nov. 626 We have lively sand-eels towing in the courge. |