单词 | cunarder |
释义 | Cunardern. A Cunard steamer; one of a line of steam-ships between Liverpool and New York. This line of steamers was founded by Sir Samuel Cunard, of Halifax, N.S., in conjunction with others. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > passenger vessel > [noun] > of specific line Cunarder1850 1850 Knickerbocker 36 574 The ‘Cunarders’. 1869 C. L. Brace New West i. 23 Take the matter of coal alone..burned at the rate it is on a Cunarder. 1874 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age lv. 494 He pointed out where the Cunarders lay when in port. 1881 Cent. Mag. 23 184/1 The great Cunarder..drew towards us. 1882 Athenæum 16 Dec. 806/2 On June 4th, 1840..a year before the Britannia, the first Cunarder, sailed from Liverpool. 1890 Times 30 Dec. 7/4 The arrival of a Cunarder in the Mersey. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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