| 单词 | dockyard matey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdockyard matey dockyard matey n. colloquial = dockyard man n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > boat-builder or shipbuilder > [noun] > man employed at dockyard dockyard man1801 dockyard matey1829 yardie1893 1829 W. N. Glascock Sailors & Saints III. 95 The ‘Dock-yard-Maties’—a class of men, whose hostility, and turbulent insolence to naval officers..is proverbial. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. viii. 95 I asked of a bye-stander who these people were, and he told me that they were dock-yard mateys. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ii. 16 A gray, cigar-shaped vessel lying in a dry dock, with dockyard ‘maties’ swarming on board her. 1918 ‘Taffrail’ Little Ship ii. 26 The dockyard-maties had slapped on the service gray paint over coal-dust and dirt alike. 1942 N. Monsarrat H.M. Corvette i. 11 Aft, the Torpedoman was arguing..with a welder, a Clydeside dockyard-matey. 1958 E. Hyams Taking it Easy i. ii. 72 The dockyard ‘mateys’ who had been sent us to do the work were all Bretons from the Arsenal at Brest. 1974 ‘M. Hebden’ Pride of Dolphins iii. iii. 232 Many of the lights in the control room were missing, probably stolen by dockyard mateys. < as lemmas |
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