| 单词 | cockle boat |
| 释义 | > as lemmascockle boat cockle boat n. (a) a small light or shallow boat (now rare); cf. sense 2b, cockboat n.; (b) a boat used for gathering or harvesting cockles.In quot. a1625 as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > small vessel > small boat nacelle1483 cockle boata1625 peasecod-boat1657 boatie1788 monkey boat1813 dinky1849 cockle1857 sea-boat1909 a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize ii. vi, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ooooov/2 This Pinck, this painted Foyst, this Cockle-boat, To hang her Fights out, and defie me friends, A wel known man of war? 1698 Edwin Mayor Order touching Duties Officers at Billingsgate (single sheet) (table) Every Muscle or Cockle-Boat. 1872 B. Jerrold London iv. 43 The river..bright with the trifles of cockleboats and pleasure-steamers. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring ii. ix. 405 If the Emyn Muil lie before us, then we can abandon these cockle-boats, and strike westward and southward, until we come to the Entwash and cross into my own land. 2004 Boston Standard (Nexis) 22 Sept. A cockle boat returning from the Wash at dusk to Boston Dock. < as lemmas |
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