单词 | gondolier |
释义 | gondoliern. A person who rows a gondola. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on other types of craft brigantiner1555 gondolier1603 collier1716 Greenlandman?1785 junkman1795 surfman1816 Whitehaller1824 gig1833 yawler1833 coracler1834 keel-boatman1839 square-rigger1855 surf boatman1856 skiffman1868 flatman1883 yawlsman1885 packet rat1887 hookerman1894 scooterist1919 launchman1924 sampan-wallah1932 tanker man1932 hydrocyclist- 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 511 The Gondoliers or water-men of Venice. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. O5v I meane these seducing and tempting Gondoleers of the Rialto bridge. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. i. 127 A knaue of common hire, a Gundelier. 1740 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 June (1966) II. 109 They are row'd by Gondoliers dress'd in rich Habits. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV iii. 4 In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier. 1880 ‘V. Lee’ Stud. 18th Cent. Italy vi. ii. 266 The gondoliers seated on the slimy steps by their moored boats. Derivatives gondolier v. transitive, to carry in a gondola. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > in specific type of craft or by specific propulsion rowa1470 boat1508 keel1599 barge1652 raft1667 drog1681 sculler1682 paddle1784 punt1818 scull1827 wherry1827 yawl1884 steam1891 submarine1918 gondolier1936 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxiv. 254 Albert gondoliered us across the stream. gondoˈliering n. ΚΠ 1889 W. S. Gilbert Gondoliers ii. 32 Take it altogether, is it—Better fun than gondoliering? 1965 Listener 15 Apr. 560/2 Gondoliering runs in families. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1603 |
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