| 单词 | old salt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasold salt old salt n. an experienced sailor, esp. one who is prone to talk loquaciously about the seafaring life; an old sea dog. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > old or experienced sailor hale bowline1627 sea-dog1823 stationer1826 old salt1828 salt1840 shell-back1853 sea-daddy1899 1828 Ariel (Philadelphia) 23 Aug. 72/1 Landsmen generally have very mistaken notions concerning sailors... ‘Tom Coffin’ is a caricature, and not a very good one of an ‘old salt’, but terribly strained and stiff. 1838 J. F. Cooper Homeward Bound I. viii. 129 ‘If we had a few guns, and were a little stronger-handed,’ growled an old salt to the second-mate. 1896 Argosy Feb. 465/1 Even the intelligent and dreary old salt, that saline epitome of useful information..is pleasantly absent. 1992 Yachts & Yachting 28 Aug. 71/3 Old salts in their dotage will bore their grandchildren with tales of the first day of Cowes Week '92. < as lemmas |
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