| 单词 | from stem to stern |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrom stem to stern b. Phrases. from stem to stern ( †from stern to stem, †from post to stem): along the whole length of a ship. to give (a ship) the stem: to ram. †stem for stem: (of ships) abreast, exactly alongside each other. stem on: so as to strike with the stem. stem to stem: (of ships) with their stems facing each other. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (transitive)] > ram stemc1500 to give (a ship) the stem1548 ram1664 beak1898 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > either extremity of vessel > from stem to stern [phrase] from post to stem1548 from stern to stem1548 fore and afta1618 from stem to stern1697 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > in front part of vessel [phrase] > of vessels: with stems facing stem to stem1548 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [phrase] > side by side (of vessels) board on boarda1450 board and board1614 stem for stem1670 broadside to (or and) broadside1696 board by board1697 society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [phrase] > so as to strike with the stem stem on1880 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxjv Sir Henry Guilford and sir Charles Brandon..beeyng in the Souereigne,..laied stemme to stemme to the Caricke. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxxiii. 80 Wee had..our shippe Calked from Post to Stemme. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 2 Pulling it from sterne to stem. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) vi. 535/1 The Ship gave Stem to a Whale that lay a sleep..; it was a Stem upon a Whale. 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 102 To give a ship the Stem, that is to run right upon her with the Stem. 1667 London Gaz. No. 120/1 Three Ulushing Men of War..immediately came roundly up with us, Stemb to Stemb. 1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 129 There were five great ships a Head, coming stem for stem towards us. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 206 Orontes Barque..From Stem to Stern, by Waves was overborn. 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. xxvi. 431 The Athenians..would be forced to meet them..stem to stem. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 13 Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern. 1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton ii. 9 The sea ran high, and swept the little craft from stem to stern. 1880 Daily Tel. 7 Sept. Steer her straight, good captain, stem on to the mark, and wear her round smart. 1884 Manch. Examiner 24 Nov. 6/1 My little boat..has been driven full tilt, stem on, against a rock in mid-stream. 1885 Daily Tel. 21 May 5/3 The cry was, ‘Give privateers the stem!’ that is, run them down. 1885 Law Times Rep. 53 55/1 The Earl of Beaconsfield struck the J. M. Stevens on the port quarter stem on. < as lemmas |
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