| 单词 | mulberry harbour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMulberry harbour 4. [ < Mulberry, the name of a ship (see quot. 1945).] Originally (as a code name): the prefabricated harbour used in the invasion of continental Europe by the Allied forces in 1944. Now also: any artificial, usually prefabricated, harbour. More fully Mulberry harbour. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > floating harbour > specific mulberry1945 1945 Notes & Queries 15 Dec. 263/2 The word ‘Mulberry’ was selected as the secret name for the artificial harbour..from its being that which happened to come next in rotation on the Admiralty's List of Ships' Names then available for use. 1958 Listener 5 June 930/2 Further north—in the island of Schouwen-Duiveland—I saw where it had been necessary to float great mulberry harbour caissons in and sink them in the gaps. 1965 R. B. Oram Cargo Handling viii. 152 Movable quays of the war time Mulberry pattern. 1972 Daily Tel. 11 May 9/3 Vice-Adml Hughes-Hallett told me he..frankly considered the ‘embellishments’ of the Mulberries quite superfluous. 1988 E. Wood et al. Sea Life Brit. & Ireland 93 Relics of the Second World War include several concrete ‘Mulberry Harbour’ units in the Bognor area. < as lemmas |
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