| 单词 | ocean tramp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasocean tramp ocean tramp n. [compare tramp n.1 5a] an ocean-going tramp steamer. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > tramp trampc1880 ocean tramp1886 1886 Shipping Gaz. 9 July We think few will deny that the ‘ocean tramp’ is the product of competition. 1899 Daily News 9 Jan. 6/1 Ocean tramps or cargo boats, jerry-built, run up by contract. 2001 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 26 Aug. 56 She [sc. the bird] must have lost sight of the coast, lost also her bearings, and sought refuge in the rigging of an ocean tramp. ocean tramp a. In full, ocean tramp: A cargo vessel, esp. a steamship, which does not trade regularly between fixed ports, but takes cargoes wherever obtainable and for any port. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > tramp trampc1880 ocean tramp1886 c1880 [Remembered in colloquial use]. 1886 Shipping Gaz. 9 July We think few will deny that the ‘ocean tramp’ is the product of competition. 1891 M. Roberts in Murray's Mag. June 795 The pure ‘tramp’ is not seen to its best advantage in seas whose ports are in connection with England by wire or submarine cable. 1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Ocean Tramps or Tramp Steamers, a nautical term applied to all seagoing steamships (outside the regular liners, i.e. not confined to one particular trade) which earn their freight solely by cargo-carrying to all or any parts of the world. 1893 Naut. Mag. Mar. 212. 1900 F. T. Bullen Men of Merchant Service iii. 21 The lowest type of tramp..is..built so as to pass Lloyd's surveyor, but without one single item in her equipment that can be dispensed with. < as lemmas |
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