dolphinn.

Brit.

/ˈdɒlfɪn/, U.S.

/ˈdɔlfən/,

/ˈdɑlfən/

Forms: Middle English delfyn(e, 1500s–1600s delphin; Middle English–1500s dalphyn(e, 1600s daulphin; Middle English–1500s dolphyn, Middle English dolfyn(e, dolphyne, 1500s doulphyn, 1500s–1600s dolphine, 1500s– dolphin. See also dauphin n.

Etymology: In the form delfyn, delphin, apparently directly < Latin delphīnus (medieval Latin also delfīnus, Italian delfino, Spanish delfin); with the form dalphyne, compare Provençal dalfin, Old French daulphin; of the latter dolfin appears to be a phonetic variant with o < au: Littré has an example of doffin in 15th cent. French.

1. A species of cetaceous mammal ( Delphinus Delphis), having a longer and more slender snout than the porpoise, with which it is frequently confounded, so that the two names become interchanged; sometimes applied also to the grampus.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Delphinidae > delphinus delphis (dolphin)

mereswineeOE

delphinc1300

dolphin13..

dolphin-fish1513

dolphinet1595

Delphinusa1672

13.. K. Alis. 6576 Heo noriceth delfyns, and cokadrill.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 13 Þere beeþ ofte i-take dolphyns, and see calues, and baleynes.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 126/1 Dolfyne, fysche, delphinus.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 214/2 Doulphyn a fysshe, doulphin.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 353 The Dalphine feedeth her young with milke.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. ii. 14 Like Orion on the Dolphines backe.

1647 J. Hall Poems i. 41 Had but the curteous Delphins heard.

1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre iii. 102 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian A great number of Daulphins coming upon the mouth of the Euxine Sea.

1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 50 It does not appear that the dolphin shews a greater attachment to mankind than the rest of the cetaceous tribe.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 521/2 The head [of the porpoise] is rounded in front, and differs from that of the true dolphins in not having the snout produced into a distinct ‘beak’.

2. Popularly applied to the dorado ( Coryphæna hippuris), a fish celebrated for its beautiful colours, which, when it is taken out of the water, or is dying, undergo rapid changes of hue.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Coryphaenidae (dolphin)

gilthead1538

dorado1604

dolphin1626

golden-poll1655

goldfish1670

pudding-wife1735

river porpoise1736

river dolphin1781

pudding fish?a1808

mahimahi1905

lampuki1925

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 5 Fish hookes, for..Dolphins, or Dorados.

1628 World Encompassed by Sir F. Drake 13 The..great mackrel (whom the Aurata or dolphin lidwise pursueth).

1633 G. Herbert Giddinesse in Temple v.

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 443 The Dolphin. This is one of the most beautiful fishes of those seas.

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xxix. 17 Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour..The last still loveliest.

1844 E. B. Browning Vision of Poets xcvi, in Poems (1850) I. 215 Faint and dim His spirits seemed to sink in him, Then, like a dolphin, change and swim The current.

3. Astronomy. A northern constellation, Delphinus.

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the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Delphinus

dolphin1430

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xiv In whiche the Egle and also the Dolphyne Haue theyr arysynge by reuolucion.

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 264 A lyttle from it is the Dolphine, whiche hath in it 10 starres.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 73 About the time of the Dolphins appearaunce.

1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 358 Two double stars, one of the Lion, the other of the Dolphin.

4. A figure of a dolphin (generally represented as curved) in painting, sculpture, heraldry. etc.In early Christian art used as an emblem of love, diligence, or swiftness.

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?a1400 Morte Arth. 2054 A derfe schelde..With a dragone engowschede..Devorande a dolphyne.

a1440 Sir Degrev. 1038 He beres a dolfyn of gold.

1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 435 The fish or dolphin at the side of the statue, on which some boys seem to be riding.

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. App. xxi. 400 A dolphin may be used as a symbol of the sea.

1895 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 449/1 Some Aldine edition, with..the sign of the well-known anchor and dolphin.

†5. (In full, dalphyn or dolphin crown.) A French gold coin, formerly current in Scotland. Obsolete.Probably the French écu du Dauphiné, weighing about 54 English grains, struck by Louis XI for the Dauphiné.

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1451 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1597) §33 The Crown of France hauand a crowned Flowre deluce on ilk side of the Schield,..and the Dolphin Crowne, ilk ane of them hauand course for sex shillinges aucht pennies.

1455 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1597) §59 The Salute, the Rydar, the Crowne, the Dolphin, to elleven shillings.

6. Applied to various contrivances resembling or fancifully likened to a dolphin.

a. In early artillery, each of two handles cast solid on a cannon nearly over the trunnions, commonly made in the conventional form of a dolphin.

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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) Ordnance, Maniglions or Dolphins..are the Handles placed on the back of the Piece near the Trunnions, and near the Centre of Gravity, to mount and dismount it the more easily.

1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour xi. 239 Thus the handles, anses (when in use in England called dolphins), are not infrequently made in the form of the body of some living creature; for example, in Fig. 50 they appear in the form of two dolphins.

b. Nautical (a) A spar or block of wood with a ring bolt at each end for vessels to ride by; a mooring-buoy. (b) A mooring-post or bollard placed at the entrance of a dock or along a quay, wharf or beach, to make hawsers fast to. (c) A wreath of plaited cordage fastened about a mast or yard, to prevent the latter from falling in case of the ropes or chains which support it being shot away in action.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > plaited cordage to prevent yards from falling

dolphin1764

puddening1769

1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I Dolphins of the Mast.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. vi. 66 What with dead-eyes and shrouds, cats and catblocks, dolphins and dolphin-strikers..I was..puzzled.

1840 Evid. Hull Docks Comm. 90 Q. What is a dolphin? A. There is a post in the middle, and it is inclosed round by other posts, and this post in the middle is the post to make the rope fast to, and the others support it; it is for the vessels to warp into the river Hull.

1844 Hull Dock Act 91 Substantial hawsers..fixed to the dolphins.

1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Dolphin of the mast.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Bollard..also a lighter sort of dolphin for attaching vessels to.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Puddening..a thick wreath of yarns, matting, or oakum (called a dolphin), tapering from the middle towards the ends.

c. Ancient Greek History. A heavy mass of lead, etc. suspended from a yard at the bows of a war-vessel, to be dropped into an enemy's ship when at close quarters.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > heavy mass to drop in ship

dolphin1774

1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. viii. 279 The enemy..were stopped by the yards of those ships to which were fixed dolphins of lead.

1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Knights in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 227 Let your dolphins rise high, while the enemy's nearing.

1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Knights ii. iii in Comedies 203 Quick haul up your ponderous dolphins.

1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lx. 410 The prows of these vessels were provided with dolphins—or beams lifted up on high and armed at the end with massive heads of iron, which could be so let fall as to crush any ship entering..this opening.

d. ‘A technical term applied to the pipe and cover at a source for the supply of water’ (Weale Dict. Terms Arch. 1849–50).

e. Angling. A kind of hook.

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1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 18.

f. (See quot. 1905) U.S.

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1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 35 Dolphin, a cluster of piles to which a boom is secured.

7. A black species of aphis or plant-louse ( Aphis fabæ), very destructive to bean-plants; also called collier and dolphin-fly. Also a black coleopterous insect infesting turnips (quot. 1771).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > aphis fabae

dolphin1731

dolphin-fly1846

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Dolphins (with Gardiners) small black Insects that infest Beans, etc.

1771 G. White Let. 30 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 90 The country people here call it the turnip-fly and black-dolphin; but I know it to be one of the coleoptera; the chrysomela oleracea.

1846 Hannam in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 7 ii. 590 The season of 1846 has been memorable for the dolphin among the pea-crop.

1883 Culture of Veg. & Flowers (Sutton & Sons) (1892) 382 The Bean Aphis..the Bean Plant Louse, or Black Dolphin.

†8. = dauphin n. 1. Obsolete.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

dolphin-colour n.

1842 E. B. Browning Greek Christian Poets & Eng. Poets (1863) 1 Pang by pang, each with a dolphin colour.

dolphin-family n.

dolphin-fish n.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Delphinidae > delphinus delphis (dolphin)

mereswineeOE

delphinc1300

dolphin13..

dolphin-fish1513

dolphinet1595

Delphinusa1672

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. x. 88 Als swift as dalfin fische, swymand away.

1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 510 The Dolphin fish..is a lover of man.

dolphin-hue n.

1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 75 Melodious moaned the other ‘Dying day with dolphin-hues.’

dolphin-shoal n.

1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 248 Some dolphin shoal..afloat on the watery plain.

dolphin-urn n.

1891 E. Castle Consequences III. ii. xvii. 3 Hot water bubbled..in an ancient copper ‘dolphin’ urn of exquisite outline.

dolphin-borne adj.

dolphin-drawn adj.

1914 W. B. Yeats Responsibilities 32 Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly waggons.

1965 Eng. Stud. 46 383 If Keats did not invent the dolphin-drawn float himself he may have found this picture in..the numerous illustrators of Homer.

dolphin-headed adj.

1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 15 The fancy cock and hammers have given place to a dolphin-headed hammer.

dolphin-like adj.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 88 His delights Were Dolphin-like, they shew'd his backe aboue The Element they liu'd in.

dolphin-torn adj.

1932 W. B. Yeats Words for Music 2 That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.

C2.

dolphin-fat n. a fat obtained from species of Delphinus (delphin n. 2).

dolphin-flower n. the Larkspur (Delphinium).

dolphin-fly n. = sense 7.

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dolphin1731

dolphin-fly1846

1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Dolphin-fly, an insect of the aphis tribe, destructive to beans.

dolphin-oil n. = dolphin-fat n. (Watts Dict. Chem. II. 309).

dolphin-striker n. Nautical a short gaff spar fixed perpendicularly under the cap of the bowsprit for guying down the jib-boom; also called martingale (which name is also given to the ropes connecting it with the jib-boom).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > spar projecting over bows > extension of > spar for guys of

martingale1794

dolphin-striker1834

whisker1844

1834Dolphin-striker [see sense 6b].

1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook II. vii. 173 A very unequal collision..carried away our..dolphin-striker.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Martingale The spar is usually termed the dolphin-striker, from its handy position whence to strike fish.

Draft additions September 2018

dolphin kick n. Swimming a leg movement used in swimming in which the legs are brought up and down in unison with an undulating motion, esp. used in competitive events to propel the body faster underwater after diving or turning; cf. butterfly kick n. 1.

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1937 Muscatine (Iowa) Jrnl. & News-Tribune 20 Jan. 6/7 Coach Armbruster pointed out that the butterfly stroke with the dolphin kick movement, demonstrated by Allen, is not permitted in racing meets though it is faster than the regular breast stroke.

1986 Times 19 Aug. 30/6 Moorhouse was disqualified by the turn judge for an illegal dolphin kick at the turn.

2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 20 June (Sports section) e1 Though utilized for decades, the underwater dolphin kick had not been fully exploited by the swimming mainstream until Olympic megastar Michael Phelps and a few other stars began polishing it.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dolphin
释义	dolphinn. Brit. /ˈdɒlfɪn/, U.S. /ˈdɔlfən/, /ˈdɑlfən/ Forms: Middle English delfyn(e, 1500s–1600s delphin; Middle English–1500s dalphyn(e, 1600s daulphin; Middle English–1500s dolphyn, Middle English dolfyn(e, dolphyne, 1500s doulphyn, 1500s–1600s dolphine, 1500s– dolphin. See also dauphin n. Etymology: In the form delfyn, delphin, apparently directly < Latin delphīnus (medieval Latin also delfīnus, Italian delfino, Spanish delfin); with the form dalphyne, compare Provençal dalfin, Old French daulphin; of the latter dolfin appears to be a phonetic variant with o < au: Littré has an example of doffin in 15th cent. French. 1. A species of cetaceous mammal ( Delphinus Delphis), having a longer and more slender snout than the porpoise, with which it is frequently confounded, so that the two names become interchanged; sometimes applied also to the grampus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Delphinidae > delphinus delphis (dolphin) mereswineeOE delphinc1300 dolphin13.. dolphin-fish1513 dolphinet1595 Delphinusa1672 13.. K. Alis. 6576 Heo noriceth delfyns, and cokadrill. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 13 Þere beeþ ofte i-take dolphyns, and see calues, and baleynes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 126/1 Dolfyne, fysche, delphinus. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 214/2 Doulphyn a fysshe, doulphin. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 353 The Dalphine feedeth her young with milke. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. ii. 14 Like Orion on the Dolphines backe. View more context for this quotation 1647 J. Hall Poems i. 41 Had but the curteous Delphins heard. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre iii. 102 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian A great number of Daulphins coming upon the mouth of the Euxine Sea. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 50 It does not appear that the dolphin shews a greater attachment to mankind than the rest of the cetaceous tribe. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 521/2 The head [of the porpoise] is rounded in front, and differs from that of the true dolphins in not having the snout produced into a distinct ‘beak’. 2. Popularly applied to the dorado ( Coryphæna hippuris), a fish celebrated for its beautiful colours, which, when it is taken out of the water, or is dying, undergo rapid changes of hue. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Coryphaenidae (dolphin) gilthead1538 dorado1604 dolphin1626 golden-poll1655 goldfish1670 pudding-wife1735 river porpoise1736 river dolphin1781 pudding fish?a1808 mahimahi1905 lampuki1925 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 5 Fish hookes, for..Dolphins, or Dorados. 1628 World Encompassed by Sir F. Drake 13 The..great mackrel (whom the Aurata or dolphin lidwise pursueth). 1633 G. Herbert Giddinesse in Temple v. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 443 The Dolphin. This is one of the most beautiful fishes of those seas. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xxix. 17 Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour..The last still loveliest. 1844 E. B. Browning Vision of Poets xcvi, in Poems (1850) I. 215 Faint and dim His spirits seemed to sink in him, Then, like a dolphin, change and swim The current. 3. Astronomy. A northern constellation, Delphinus. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Delphinus dolphin1430 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xiv In whiche the Egle and also the Dolphyne Haue theyr arysynge by reuolucion. 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 264 A lyttle from it is the Dolphine, whiche hath in it 10 starres. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 73 About the time of the Dolphins appearaunce. 1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 358 Two double stars, one of the Lion, the other of the Dolphin. 4. A figure of a dolphin (generally represented as curved) in painting, sculpture, heraldry. etc.In early Christian art used as an emblem of love, diligence, or swiftness. ΚΠ ?a1400 Morte Arth. 2054 A derfe schelde..With a dragone engowschede..Devorande a dolphyne. a1440 Sir Degrev. 1038 He beres a dolfyn of gold. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 435 The fish or dolphin at the side of the statue, on which some boys seem to be riding. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. App. xxi. 400 A dolphin may be used as a symbol of the sea. 1895 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 449/1 Some Aldine edition, with..the sign of the well-known anchor and dolphin. †5. (In full, dalphyn or dolphin crown.) A French gold coin, formerly current in Scotland. Obsolete.Probably the French écu du Dauphiné, weighing about 54 English grains, struck by Louis XI for the Dauphiné. ΚΠ 1451 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1597) §33 The Crown of France hauand a crowned Flowre deluce on ilk side of the Schield,..and the Dolphin Crowne, ilk ane of them hauand course for sex shillinges aucht pennies. 1455 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1597) §59 The Salute, the Rydar, the Crowne, the Dolphin, to elleven shillings. 6. Applied to various contrivances resembling or fancifully likened to a dolphin. a. In early artillery, each of two handles cast solid on a cannon nearly over the trunnions, commonly made in the conventional form of a dolphin. ΚΠ 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) Ordnance, Maniglions or Dolphins..are the Handles placed on the back of the Piece near the Trunnions, and near the Centre of Gravity, to mount and dismount it the more easily. 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour xi. 239 Thus the handles, anses (when in use in England called dolphins), are not infrequently made in the form of the body of some living creature; for example, in Fig. 50 they appear in the form of two dolphins. b. Nautical (a) A spar or block of wood with a ring bolt at each end for vessels to ride by; a mooring-buoy. (b) A mooring-post or bollard placed at the entrance of a dock or along a quay, wharf or beach, to make hawsers fast to. (c) A wreath of plaited cordage fastened about a mast or yard, to prevent the latter from falling in case of the ropes or chains which support it being shot away in action. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > plaited cordage to prevent yards from falling dolphin1764 puddening1769 1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I Dolphins of the Mast. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. vi. 66 What with dead-eyes and shrouds, cats and catblocks, dolphins and dolphin-strikers..I was..puzzled. 1840 Evid. Hull Docks Comm. 90 Q. What is a dolphin? A. There is a post in the middle, and it is inclosed round by other posts, and this post in the middle is the post to make the rope fast to, and the others support it; it is for the vessels to warp into the river Hull. 1844 Hull Dock Act 91 Substantial hawsers..fixed to the dolphins. 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Dolphin of the mast. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Bollard..also a lighter sort of dolphin for attaching vessels to. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Puddening..a thick wreath of yarns, matting, or oakum (called a dolphin), tapering from the middle towards the ends. c. Ancient Greek History. A heavy mass of lead, etc. suspended from a yard at the bows of a war-vessel, to be dropped into an enemy's ship when at close quarters. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > heavy mass to drop in ship dolphin1774 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. viii. 279 The enemy..were stopped by the yards of those ships to which were fixed dolphins of lead. 1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Knights in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 227 Let your dolphins rise high, while the enemy's nearing. 1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Knights ii. iii in Comedies 203 Quick haul up your ponderous dolphins. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lx. 410 The prows of these vessels were provided with dolphins—or beams lifted up on high and armed at the end with massive heads of iron, which could be so let fall as to crush any ship entering..this opening. d. ‘A technical term applied to the pipe and cover at a source for the supply of water’ (Weale Dict. Terms Arch. 1849–50). e. Angling. A kind of hook. ΚΠ 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 18. f. (See quot. 1905) U.S. ΚΠ 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 35 Dolphin, a cluster of piles to which a boom is secured. 7. A black species of aphis or plant-louse ( Aphis fabæ), very destructive to bean-plants; also called collier and dolphin-fly. Also a black coleopterous insect infesting turnips (quot. 1771). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > aphis fabae dolphin1731 dolphin-fly1846 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Dolphins (with Gardiners) small black Insects that infest Beans, etc. 1771 G. White Let. 30 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 90 The country people here call it the turnip-fly and black-dolphin; but I know it to be one of the coleoptera; the chrysomela oleracea. 1846 Hannam in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 7 ii. 590 The season of 1846 has been memorable for the dolphin among the pea-crop. 1883 Culture of Veg. & Flowers (Sutton & Sons) (1892) 382 The Bean Aphis..the Bean Plant Louse, or Black Dolphin. †8. = dauphin n. 1. Obsolete. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. dolphin-colour n. Π 1842 E. B. Browning Greek Christian Poets & Eng. Poets (1863) 1 Pang by pang, each with a dolphin colour. dolphin-family n. dolphin-fish n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Delphinidae > delphinus delphis (dolphin) mereswineeOE delphinc1300 dolphin13.. dolphin-fish1513 dolphinet1595 Delphinusa1672 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. x. 88 Als swift as dalfin fische, swymand away. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 510 The Dolphin fish..is a lover of man. dolphin-hue n. Π 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 75 Melodious moaned the other ‘Dying day with dolphin-hues.’ dolphin-shoal n. Π 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 248 Some dolphin shoal..afloat on the watery plain. dolphin-urn n. Π 1891 E. Castle Consequences III. ii. xvii. 3 Hot water bubbled..in an ancient copper ‘dolphin’ urn of exquisite outline. b. dolphin-borne adj. dolphin-drawn adj. Π 1914 W. B. Yeats Responsibilities 32 Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly waggons. 1965 Eng. Stud. 46 383 If Keats did not invent the dolphin-drawn float himself he may have found this picture in..the numerous illustrators of Homer. dolphin-headed adj. Π 1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 15 The fancy cock and hammers have given place to a dolphin-headed hammer. dolphin-like adj. Π a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 88 His delights Were Dolphin-like, they shew'd his backe aboue The Element they liu'd in. View more context for this quotation dolphin-torn adj. Π 1932 W. B. Yeats Words for Music 2 That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. C2. dolphin-fat n. a fat obtained from species of Delphinus (delphin n. 2). dolphin-flower n. the Larkspur (Delphinium). dolphin-fly n. = sense 7. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > aphis fabae dolphin1731 dolphin-fly1846 1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Dolphin-fly, an insect of the aphis tribe, destructive to beans. dolphin-oil n. = dolphin-fat n. (Watts Dict. Chem. II. 309). dolphin-striker n. Nautical a short gaff spar fixed perpendicularly under the cap of the bowsprit for guying down the jib-boom; also called martingale (which name is also given to the ropes connecting it with the jib-boom). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > spar projecting over bows > extension of > spar for guys of martingale1794 dolphin-striker1834 whisker1844 1834Dolphin-striker [see sense 6b]. 1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook II. vii. 173 A very unequal collision..carried away our..dolphin-striker. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Martingale The spar is usually termed the dolphin-striker, from its handy position whence to strike fish. Draft additions September 2018 dolphin kick n. Swimming a leg movement used in swimming in which the legs are brought up and down in unison with an undulating motion, esp. used in competitive events to propel the body faster underwater after diving or turning; cf. butterfly kick n. 1. ΚΠ 1937 Muscatine (Iowa) Jrnl. & News-Tribune 20 Jan. 6/7 Coach Armbruster pointed out that the butterfly stroke with the dolphin kick movement, demonstrated by Allen, is not permitted in racing meets though it is faster than the regular breast stroke. 1986 Times 19 Aug. 30/6 Moorhouse was disqualified by the turn judge for an illegal dolphin kick at the turn. 2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 20 June (Sports section) e1 Though utilized for decades, the underwater dolphin kick had not been fully exploited by the swimming mainstream until Olympic megastar Michael Phelps and a few other stars began polishing it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.13..
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