单词 | herring-buss |
释义 | herring-bussn. Obsolete exc. Historical. A two- or three-masted vessel used in the herring-fishery. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > fishing for herring herring-buss1615 nabbie1839 Fifie1905 1615 E. Sharpe Britaines Busse sig. C3 To seeke out the said Herring-Busses, and to buy of them their Herrings. 1691 London Gaz. No. 2684/3 7 or 8 French Frigats and Privateers..fell in with our Herring-Busses. 1784 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations (ed. 3) II. iv. v. 282 The tonnage bounty upon the herring buss fishery. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v. 48/1 The common Fleet of herring-busses and whalers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < |
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