transitive. To clean (a ship's bottom) by burning off the accretions, and paying it over with tar or some composition, while aground on a beach…
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释义 | society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > clean and coat ship's bottom (7) grave1461 transitive. To clean (a ship's bottom) by burning off the accretions, and paying it over with tar or some composition, while aground on a beach… clean1697 Often in specific (contextual) senses: e.g. to clear arable land of weeds, esp. of the roots of creeping plants; to clear a ship's bottom of… Subcategories:— subject to boot-topping (1) — smear with pitch (2) — smear with tallow (and sulphur) (1) — coat with pot-lead (1) |
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