单词 | monoxyle |
释义 | monoxylen. Now rare. A canoe or boat made from a single trunk or piece of timber; = monoxylon n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > dug-out troughc893 cot1537 monoxylon1555 toni1582 piragua1599 pitpan1726 log-canoe1752 monoxyle1775 corial1796 dugout1819 montaria1853 lakatoi1885 mokoro1897 doonga1905 curiara1910 1775 Ann. Reg. 1774 Misc. 169/2 To these succeeded trunks of trees cut hollow, termed by the Greeks monoxyles. 1840 T. Keightley Hist. Rom. Empire iii. v. 376 The Goths embarked their warriors in three thousand monoxyls or canoes. 1847 Sci. Amer. 6 Mar. 192/3 The next were planks joined together in the form of monoxyle. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. IV. ccci. 168 Here it [sc. ‘Kárib’] refers to the canoe..pop. ‘dug-out’ and classically ‘monoxyle’. 1977 Man New Ser. 12 500 It is not possible to learn overnight how to carve monoxyle canoes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1775 |
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