| 单词 | packet rat |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspacket rat packet rat n. derogatory (now historical) a sailor, spec. one who specialized in crossing the Atlantic. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on other types of craft brigantiner1555 gondolier1603 collier1716 Greenlandman?1785 junkman1795 surfman1816 Whitehaller1824 gig1833 yawler1833 coracler1834 keel-boatman1839 square-rigger1855 surf boatman1856 skiffman1868 flatman1883 yawlsman1885 packet rat1887 hookerman1894 scooterist1919 launchman1924 sampan-wallah1932 tanker man1932 hydrocyclist- 1887 G. Davis Recoll. Sea-Wanderer's Life 90 Their brother tars..disclaimed all kinship with ‘packet rats’. 1906 Daily Chron. 11 Aug. 4/6 It is almost as far a cry from the days of the Liverpool ‘packet rat’ as it is from the craft of to-day to the ‘coffin ships’ of Plimsoll memory. 2001 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 7 July 18 The ‘packet rats’, the crews of the fast mail ships who were some of the toughest seamen in the world. < as lemmas |
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