单词 | hell afloat |
释义 | > as lemmashell afloat hell afloat n. slang (now historical) = hell-ship n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > vessel on which conditions are bad hell afloat1826 hell-ship1895 hard case1920 1826 W. N. Glascock Naval Sketch-bk. II. 140 Till at last she was no better nor a reg'lar built hell afloat. 1928 Musical Times 69 623/2 A brutal captain could make his ship a hell afloat, in which sailors had to fight or be flogged to death. 1973 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 117 399 The wretched confinement and unsanitary conditions existing on an overcrowded..‘hell afloat’, provided adequate incentive to attempt escape. < as lemmas |
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