单词 | lay-day |
释义 | lay-dayn. Commerce. One of a certain number of days allowed according to a charter-party for the loading and unloading of cargo. ΚΠ 1842 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. ii. ii. v. 185 That he will..load and unload the goods within a certain number of days (usually called lay or running days). 1857 C. Gribble in Mercantile Marine Mag. (1858) 5 5 Your consignees..do not trouble themselves until your lay days are expired. Draft additions 1997 2. Sailing. A day in which a boat is delayed in port (usually because of bad weather, or so that the crew may rest). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > day when ship delayed in port lay-day1934 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Lay day,..a day of delay in port. 1958 H. L. Stone & W. H. Taylor America's Cup Races xviii. 215 The committee declared the next day a lay day..to give both crews a needed rest. 1962 Times 15 Sept. 3/3 Either skipper..may ask for a lay-day before the next start. 1976 Yachts & Yachting 20 Aug. 374/2 The weather even obliged on Thursday's lay-day with a flat, oily calm. 1988 Seahorse Sept– Oct. 21/1 The seven race series is held over nine days with two laydays in mid regatta to give sailors some extra breathing space. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1842 |
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