| 单词 | mackerel breeze |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmackerel breeze mackerel breeze n. a breeze that ruffles the water, so as to favour the catching of mackerel (cf. mackerel gale n.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind of the kind when fish are caught mackerel gale1577 mackerel breeze1751 fishing-breeze1888 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxix. 249 They tacked to and fro in the river, under the impulse of a mackerel breeze. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) ix. 176 They caught mackerel..‘a smart breeze’ (thence called a mackerel breeze) being..‘considered most favorable’ for this purpose. < as lemmas |
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