单词 | abandon ship signal |
释义 | > as lemmasabandon ship signal c. Used attributively, in abandon ship drill, abandon ship signal, etc. ΚΠ 1886 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst. 12 376 The second boat bill should be the ‘abandon-ship’ bill, and should contain the names of all on board. 1899 Chums 22 Mar. 492/3 The realistic ‘Abandon Ship’ drill is..described by a naval officer. 1918 C. J. Swan My Company i. 11 They were so bunked that they could get to the decks ahead of the company when the ‘abandon ship’ signal was given. 1993 A. Higgins Lions of Grunewald xxxi. 200 She let loose her blood-curdling abandon-ship scream, calculated to stop the heart. 2010 Weekend Post (Port Elizabeth) (Nexis) 13 Nov. The sinking made headlines across the world because the rescue and abandon ship procedures went terribly wrong. < as lemmas |
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