catamarann.

Brit.

/ˈkatəməˌran/,

/ˌkatəməˈran/,

/kəˈtamərən/, U.S.

/ˈˌkædəməˈˌræn/

Forms: Also 1600s cattamaran, 1700s catamoran, kattamaran, 1800s catamarran.

Etymology: < Tamil kaṭṭa-maram tied tree or wood (kaṭṭa tie, bond; maram wood).

a. A kind of raft or float, consisting of two, three or more logs tied together side by side, the middle one being longer than the others; used in the East Indies, especially on the Coromandel coast, for communication with the shore. Also applied to similar craft used in the West Indies for short voyages, and to others of much larger size used off the coast of South America; as well as to a kind of raft made of two boats fastened together side by side, used on the St. Lawrence and its tributaries. Later also: a sailing boat with twin hulls placed side by side, widely used as pleasure craft and in sailing contests.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > raft > types of raft

tablea1393

drag?a1400

wharfa1680

kelek1684

catamaran1697

pipery1698

wood-flat1785

moki1835

mokihi1844

wanigan1848

pae-pae1958

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [noun] > having one or more than one hull

trimaran1949

catamaran1957

multihull1963

monohull1967

tri1971

mono1977

multi1984

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > catamaran

catamaran1957

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vi. 143 The smaller sort of Bark-logs..are more governable than the other... This sort of Floats are used in many places both in the East and West Indies. On the Coast of Coromandel..they call them Catamarans. These are but one Log, or two sometimes, of a sort of light Wood..so small, that they carry but one Man, whose legs and breech are always in the Water.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 24 Coasting along, some Cattamarans..made after us.

1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 263 Rafts of bamboo, like the catamarans on the coast of Coromandel.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 242 Balsas, or Catamaran, a raft made of the trunks of the balsa..lashed together, and used by the Indians..in South America. The largest have 9 trunks of 70 or 80 feet in length, are from 20 to 24 feet wide, and from 20 to 25 tons burthen.

1804 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. III. 112 We saw two of the catamarans..coming towards us, with three black men on each.

1834 H. Caunter Oriental Ann. i. 4 The catamaran..is generally about ten feet long by eighteen inches broad.

1876 Times 25 Oct. The fan of her screw propeller came in contact with a floating catamaran.

1957 Times 13 Dec. 15/2 The catamaran has strongly caught the fancy of those to whom speed is the prime satisfaction to be had from sailing. There were races for catamarans at Cowes last summer.

b. attributive.

ΚΠ

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 47 Tumble overboard Life-raft. Reversible Catamaran principle.

†2. Applied to a kind of fire-ship or instrument of naval warfare resembling the modern torpedo; esp. to those prepared in 1804 to resist Napoleon's intended invasion of England. Obsolete.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > fireship

fire vessela1382

palander1524

fire boata1615

fireship1626

mine shipc1643

machine-vessel1694

fire raft1759

catamaran1804

fire-coffer1804

fire-junk1822

volcano-ship1860

1804 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 419/2 This undertaking commonly known by the appellation of the Catamaran expedition.

1809 Naval Chron. 22 453 The explosion of a catamaran.

1882 Allardyce in Athenæum 26 Aug. 268/2 He experimented with Fulton's ‘catamarans’—the prototypes of the modern fish torpedoes—against the Boulogne flotilla.

figurative.1822 Ld. Byron Let. 19 Feb. in T. Moore Life Ld. Byron (1851) 554/1 If you have any political catamarans to explode, this is your place.1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 31 480 He is..the very catamaran of oratory, and when he explodes, etc.

3. Applied to a cross-grained or quarrelsome person, esp. a woman. colloquial. [? Associated with cat.]

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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > [noun] > ill-natured person

crab1574

crab-staffa1603

hunks1602

snarler1634

cross-piecea1652

cross-patch1699

vixen1699

frump1817

catamaran1834

patch1839

crab-stick1840

hunkster1842

grump1900

wampus1912

maltalent1965

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew

scoldc1175

shrewc1386

viragoc1386

scolder1423

common scold1467

wild cat1570

vixen1575

callet1577

termagant1578

(Long) Meg of Westminster1589

butter whore1592

cotquean1593

scrattop1593

scoldsterc1600

butter-quean1613

Xantippea1616

fury1620

Tartar1669

fish-woman1698

cross-patch1699

Whitechapel fortune1734

brimstone1751

randy1762

fish-fag1786

rantipole1790

skellata1810

skimmington1813

targer1822

skellat-bell1827

catamaran1834

nagster1873

yenta1923

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. vi. 70 The cursed drunken old catamaran.

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. vii. iv. 185 To dress that catamaran in mail.

1868 M. Collins Sweet Anne Page II. 223 That old catamaran of a maiden aunt of his.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	catamaran
释义	catamarann. Brit. /ˈkatəməˌran/, /ˌkatəməˈran/, /kəˈtamərən/, U.S. /ˈˌkædəməˈˌræn/ Forms: Also 1600s cattamaran, 1700s catamoran, kattamaran, 1800s catamarran. Etymology: < Tamil kaṭṭa-maram tied tree or wood (kaṭṭa tie, bond; maram wood). 1. a. A kind of raft or float, consisting of two, three or more logs tied together side by side, the middle one being longer than the others; used in the East Indies, especially on the Coromandel coast, for communication with the shore. Also applied to similar craft used in the West Indies for short voyages, and to others of much larger size used off the coast of South America; as well as to a kind of raft made of two boats fastened together side by side, used on the St. Lawrence and its tributaries. Later also: a sailing boat with twin hulls placed side by side, widely used as pleasure craft and in sailing contests. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > raft > types of raft tablea1393 drag?a1400 wharfa1680 kelek1684 catamaran1697 pipery1698 wood-flat1785 moki1835 mokihi1844 wanigan1848 pae-pae1958 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [noun] > having one or more than one hull trimaran1949 catamaran1957 multihull1963 monohull1967 tri1971 mono1977 multi1984 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > catamaran catamaran1957 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vi. 143 The smaller sort of Bark-logs..are more governable than the other... This sort of Floats are used in many places both in the East and West Indies. On the Coast of Coromandel..they call them Catamarans. These are but one Log, or two sometimes, of a sort of light Wood..so small, that they carry but one Man, whose legs and breech are always in the Water. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 24 Coasting along, some Cattamarans..made after us. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 263 Rafts of bamboo, like the catamarans on the coast of Coromandel. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 242 Balsas, or Catamaran, a raft made of the trunks of the balsa..lashed together, and used by the Indians..in South America. The largest have 9 trunks of 70 or 80 feet in length, are from 20 to 24 feet wide, and from 20 to 25 tons burthen. 1804 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. III. 112 We saw two of the catamarans..coming towards us, with three black men on each. 1834 H. Caunter Oriental Ann. i. 4 The catamaran..is generally about ten feet long by eighteen inches broad. 1876 Times 25 Oct. The fan of her screw propeller came in contact with a floating catamaran. 1957 Times 13 Dec. 15/2 The catamaran has strongly caught the fancy of those to whom speed is the prime satisfaction to be had from sailing. There were races for catamarans at Cowes last summer. b. attributive. ΚΠ 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 47 Tumble overboard Life-raft. Reversible Catamaran principle. †2. Applied to a kind of fire-ship or instrument of naval warfare resembling the modern torpedo; esp. to those prepared in 1804 to resist Napoleon's intended invasion of England. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > fireship fire vessela1382 palander1524 fire boata1615 fireship1626 mine shipc1643 machine-vessel1694 fire raft1759 catamaran1804 fire-coffer1804 fire-junk1822 volcano-ship1860 1804 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 419/2 This undertaking commonly known by the appellation of the Catamaran expedition. 1809 Naval Chron. 22 453 The explosion of a catamaran. 1882 Allardyce in Athenæum 26 Aug. 268/2 He experimented with Fulton's ‘catamarans’—the prototypes of the modern fish torpedoes—against the Boulogne flotilla. figurative.1822 Ld. Byron Let. 19 Feb. in T. Moore Life Ld. Byron (1851) 554/1 If you have any political catamarans to explode, this is your place.1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 31 480 He is..the very catamaran of oratory, and when he explodes, etc. 3. Applied to a cross-grained or quarrelsome person, esp. a woman. colloquial. [? Associated with cat.] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > [noun] > ill-natured person crab1574 crab-staffa1603 hunks1602 snarler1634 cross-piecea1652 cross-patch1699 vixen1699 frump1817 catamaran1834 patch1839 crab-stick1840 hunkster1842 grump1900 wampus1912 maltalent1965 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew scoldc1175 shrewc1386 viragoc1386 scolder1423 common scold1467 wild cat1570 vixen1575 callet1577 termagant1578 (Long) Meg of Westminster1589 butter whore1592 cotquean1593 scrattop1593 scoldsterc1600 butter-quean1613 Xantippea1616 fury1620 Tartar1669 fish-woman1698 cross-patch1699 Whitechapel fortune1734 brimstone1751 randy1762 fish-fag1786 rantipole1790 skellata1810 skimmington1813 targer1822 skellat-bell1827 catamaran1834 nagster1873 yenta1923 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. vi. 70 The cursed drunken old catamaran. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. vii. iv. 185 To dress that catamaran in mail. 1868 M. Collins Sweet Anne Page II. 223 That old catamaran of a maiden aunt of his. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). catamaranv. Etymology: < catamaran n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˌcatamaˈran. To blow up with a catamaran. Also figurative.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1820 H. Matthews Diary of Invalid (1835) 288 In fact, Napoleon has so catamaranned the foundations, that more than one écroulement has already taken place. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1697v.1820
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