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单词 gubernacle
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gubernaclen.

Forms: late Middle English gubernacle, 1500s gubernakil (Scottish), 1500s gubernakle (Scottish).
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin gubernāculum
Etymology: < classical Latin gubernāculum (see gubernaculum n.); compare -cle suffix. Compare Middle French gubernacle (1484 in an apparently isolated attestation). Compare earlier governail n.
Obsolete. rare.
A rudder of a ship or boat.
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c1425 Prose Versions New Test.: Deeds (Cambr.) (1904) xxvii. 40 (MED) Ande whanne þei hade drawen vppe þo ankurs, þei putte hem vnto þe see, slakande þo iunctures fro þo gubernacle [a1450 Corpus Cambr. gubernacles; L. gubernaculorum], & raised a lytel sayle.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. v. 112 The helmstok, or gubernakle of tre, Quhairwith I reulit our cours throw the se.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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