单词 | nautic |
释义 | nauticadj.n. A. adj. Chiefly poetic and literary. Nautical. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [adjective] > on the sea nautical1552 oversea1552 maritimal1587 maritime1588 nautic1613 seagoing1895 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [adjective] tar-breech1582 nautic1613 tarpaulin1647 altumal1711 tarpaulian1719 maritime1743 tarrish1841 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (1864) 46 Cutting off the Mogols Nautike hands in hindring the mutuall Traffike of their Subiects. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. vi. 75 Neptune..was made to be the God of Nautic Science. 1691 T. Heyrick Submarine Voy. in Misc. Poems i. xv. 10 There lies a Broken Anker, on whose Trust The Lives of all the Nautick Crew were Weigh'd. 1763 W. Falconer Ode Duke of York 18 The incense of a nautic muse! 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 305 Orators, as well as poets, celebrate the nautic song. 1813 R. Southey Life Nelson II. 85 Part of them were drafted into the different regiments, and the remainder formed into a corps, called the nautic legion. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Introd. 10 The most general nautic dishes and refections. 1952 D. M. Jones Anathemata v. 124 Did ever he walk the twenty-six wards of the city, within and extra, did he cast his nautic eye on her clere and lusty under kell in the troia'd lanes of the city? 1991 Toronto Star (Nexis) 16 Mar. g13 The gasoline shortage eliminated the ‘nautic means’ and there was no fishing. B. n. colloquial. A sailor, esp. one in the Royal Navy. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun] water?1570 man-of-war1599 navy-man1679 man-of-war's-man1745 blue jacket1776 ocean-warrior1801 blue1806 web foot1846 gobby1883 nautic1909 1909 Westm. Gaz. 3 June 4/2 ‘Nautics’ love the spray of the waves more than they do the dust of the roads. 1943 B. J. Hurren Eastern Med. vi. 76 A complete reversal of policy was now thrust upon an eager company of flying nautics. 1951 P. Brickhill Dam Busters xix. 244 A certain..personality at Bomber Command..when he heard the Tirpitz was sunk, [said] ‘That's one in the eye for the Nautics!’ 1973 Sunday Tel. 4 Mar. 38/1 The Army did as they had been done by in the first-half. Now it was the Nautics who were under hideous pressure. Compounds nautic mile n. = nautical mile n. at nautical adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > mile > nautical mile geometrical1597 maritime mile1632 geometric1670 nautical mile1730 knot1748 nautic mile1762 sea-mile1796 air mile1919 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck iii. 44 Next, Delos in th' Aegëan Sea appears, And westward seventy nautic miles it bears. 1844 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 14 290 The coast-line and the soundings were then laid down on the working scale of..3 inches to the nautic mile. 1890 E. F. Knight Cruise of ‘Alerte’ viii. 131 Trinidad is roughly 680 nautic miles from Bahia. 1994 Ambio 23 181/1 The Spratly Islands encompass more than 600 coral reefs..scattered across an area north of Sabah..stretching for more than 300 nautic miles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1613 |
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