单词 | drogher |
释义 | droghern. A West Indian coasting vessel; hence transferred to other slow clumsy coasting craft. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > coaster land-carracka1616 coasting-vessela1657 coaster1687 drover1756 drogher1784 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica i. ii. 23 His goods must be shiped on board of some drover.] 1784 Ann. Reg. 1782 App. Chron. 279/2 If they are not employed in droghers,..means shall be furnished them to depart for the neutral islands. 1791 Philos. Trans. 1790 (Royal Soc.) 80 346 Droghers, or vessels employed in carrying stores, &c. from one part of the island [Grenada] to another. 1805 Naval Chron. 13 6 A drogger is a Shallop, or Schooner, employed to convey sugar from the Plantations to the Merchantmen. 1805 Naval Chron. 14 73 Disguising her as a Droger. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin xxxiv This drogher..was a large, half-decked, cutter-rigged vessel. 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms. (ed. 3) Droger or Drogher..built solely for burden, and for transporting cotton, lumber, and other heavy articles. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as drogher-man, drogher system. ΚΠ 1873 W. J. Gardner Hist. Jamaica 330 Trade..done on what is still known as the drogger system. 1889 J. J. Thomas Froudacity 179 Engage the..droghermen as able seamen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1784 |
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