| 单词 | master-attendant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmaster-attendant master-attendant n. Navy (now historical) a senior officer in a naval dockyard, concerned chiefly with the maintenance of warships. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > boat-builder or shipbuilder > [noun] > one who fits out > in royal dockyards master-attendant1654 1654 R. Blake Let. 14 Feb. (1937) 252 The Master Attendant at Portsmouth hath no accommodation for his residence at the dock. 1669 S. Pepys Diary 25 Mar. (1976) IX. 498 I did..rattle the Maister-Attendants out of their wits almost. 1858 W. M. Gilson in Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 211 I don't think there is any Master-Attendant at Trincomalee dockyard. 1912–13 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 at Allen, Robert Calder In 1866–7 he was master-attendant and harbour-master at Malta. 1937 Straits Settlem. Blue Bk. 1936 (Singapore) §12. 367 The Master Attendant, Straits Settlement, draws $300 p.a. Commuted Allowance. 2012 P. Thomas & N. Tracy Master & Madman iii. 46 Lockwood may possibly have employed slaves of his own in the yard, but if so he got others to 'accept' their pay so as to keep his name off the paysheet, except for recording his own pay as master attendant. < as lemmas |
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