| 单词 | eight-man |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseight-man 19. Modified by a number or quantifier, forming a phrase used attributively or as an adjective, as four-man, eight-man, etc.: comprising the number of people specified; suitable for or requiring the number of people specified. See also multiman adj., one-man adj., three-man adj., and two-man adj. at two adj., n., and adv. Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > rower or oarsman > crew of 4- or 8-oared boat > one of eight-man1600 seven1870 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 229 If I do, fillip me with a three man beetle. View more context for this quotation 1842 Congress. Globe 27th Congress 2 Sess. App. 812/3 Those whose clamors are so unceasing against what they are pleased to call the ‘one-man power’. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 47 A Faroese ‘Eight-man boat’, fully equipped for the grind or chase of the..Bottle-nose Whale. 1902 Daily Chron. 16 July 9/1 A couple of four-man teams. 1966 Melody Maker 7 May 4 Pollwinner Tubby Hayes heads a five-man British contingent. 1990 Pilot Oct. 44/1 The emergency equipment consisted of a five-man dinghy, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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