| 单词 | gunlance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgun-lance gun-lance n. see lance n.1 2. gun-lance 2. A similar weapon, used for various purposes, e.g. for spearing fish; also in the whale-fishery, with modifying prefixes, as bomb-lance, gun-lance, hand-lance, an instrument for killing the whale, after he has been harpooned and wearied out. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > spear > [noun] pricka1350 garfanglec1440 wawsper1472 spear1551 waster1580 fizgig1589 visgee1593 fish-spear1611 glaive1640 fish-giga1642 gaff1656 gig1705 lance1728 sticker1772 graina1818 picaroon1837 pickpole1837 fishing-spear1840 lily-iron1852 gambeering iron1883 mackerel gaff1883 society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whaling equipment > [noun] > lance or pole lancet1753 whale-lance1823 waif-pole1839 whale-pike1851 whale-pole1851 gun-lance1883 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Fishery If the Whale return to breath in the Air, the Harpineer takes occasion to give him a fresh Wound;..thrusting a long steeled Lance under his Gills into his Breast. 1791 Asiatick Researches 2 342 When a man dies, all his live stock, cloth, hatchets, fishing lances, and in short every moveable thing he possessed is buried with him. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 199 Earliest types of the hand-lances, formerly..used for killing whales..the old-fashioned, non-explosive gun-lance, and the bomb-lance. < as lemmas |
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