| 单词 | mammy chair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmammy chair mammy chair n. a (wicker) basket or chair used on ships for conveying persons to and from surf-boats. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > basket or chair to convey person to onto boats mammy chair1904 mammy boat1928 1904 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Dec. 15/1 You may elect to travel over the side in the ‘mammy-chair’, a huge barrel with part of its side cut away slung in the air by the steam-winch. 1909 D. Moore & F. G. Guggisberg We Two in W. Afr. 16 So I found myself sitting in the ‘Mammy chair’, an ordinary basket-chair with ropes slung to the arms and back,..and in a moment I was whisked off the deck, swung over the side at the end of a long derrick, [etc.]. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. June 848/1 A mammy chair was lowered, and we made the usual undignified ascent to the main deck. 1935 L. G. Green Great Afr. Myst. xv. 192 The ‘mammy-chair’ is like a swingboat at a fair; just a wooden box with two seats facing each other. < as lemmas |
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