| 单词 | a pair of scullers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa pair of scullers 2. A boat propelled by sculling; a sculling-boat; also, rarely †a pair of scullers. double-sculler, a sculling-boat to seat two scullers. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > sculling-boat sculler1567 scull1611 sculler-boat1663 funny1779 sculling-boat1856 sculling float1874 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Diiiv He went to the water syde and toke a Skoller [1573 skolloer] and was sette ouer the Water into Sainct Georges feldes. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 220/2 Linter, a wherry or sculler. a1640 W. Fenner Sacrifice of Faithful (1648) 211 A man cannot row upon the maine ocean in a paire of scullers. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 144 Her Soul already was consign'd to Fate, And shiv'ring in the leaky Sculler sate. View more context for this quotation 1760 Brit. Chron. 23 Jan. 79 On Sunday evening a skuller, with twelve people in it, struck on a hawser..and overset. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. xv. 238 Early as it was, there were plenty of scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges. 1902 Working Men's College Jrnl. 7 366 Our skipper told us our boat drew too much water..and persuaded us to hire a double-sculler. < as lemmas |
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